http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonem...

Climate target is not radical enough - study
Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions

[and I suggest that C02, 6C and 3C (sic all, see below) are indeed radical, or rather free radical species of gasified carbon, 'scuse the black humour ------------------ or maybe it's colourless...]

This conference is taking place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on April 3rd and is open to anyone with an interest in the development of our understanding of climate change, including researchers, teachers, students and campaigners.

The conference will explore:

How this potentially catastrophic situation has arisen

How societies, polities and cultures have and can sustain themselves in adverse conditions

Learning from the experiences of past and current societies which have coped with severe climate or environmental change

During Week 9 of term at LSE, world leaders will meet in Bali to discuss reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and the LSESU will be running a week of events - free and open to all - in the run up to the Saturday 8th December worldwide climate change demonstrations to raise awareness of and promote action for a low carbon world!

Al Gore's advisors respond to High Court ruling.
http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/gore/about/news_and_events/inconvenient_truth_c...

Most notably:

‘Error’ one2

Al Gore: A sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”.

The judge’s finding: “This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore’s “wake-up call”. It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - “but only after, and over, millennia.”

I have just listened back to the 28 June episode of "Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time" on "The Permian-Triassic Boundary -when 95% of life was killed off". I strongly recommend it - much more arresting than I recall Horizon being on the subject.

Podcast will remain accessible in the programme archive at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/index.shtml

Currently in Melbourne - Australia, our water catchments areas are at 28.5% of capacity, and like most of Australia there hasn’t been any significant rainfall, in fact Melbourne has experienced 257mm of rainfall in the past 12 months.

With this in mind, we recently conducted are series of VoxPop interviews on the streets of Melbourne, simply asking the question;

Do you believe we are experiencing climate change?

Here are some of the varying responses:

http://www.tokillfor.com/view_video.php?viewkey=203d7bc747cbce9d9174

The Observer had a nice, relaxed interview with Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley printed yesterday, under the title "Monckton saves the day !"

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2073267,00.html

The interviewer was fazed, dazzled and confused by what some call Monckton's "famous pork pies" about Global Warming science. You know commentators are only joking when they say things like this, and they don't mean to be libellous.

The item below was found at

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070425/climate_fil...

UK scientists want changes to climate documentary
Updated Wed. Apr. 25 2007 3:53 PM ET

Associated Press

LONDON -- A group of British climate scientists is demanding changes to a skeptical documentary about global warming, saying there are grave errors in the program billed as a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11463-global-climates-face...
Global climates face threat of fearsome changes
22:00 26 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Andy Coghlan
Within a century, half of the world's climates as we know them will have vanished forever as a direct result of global warming, taking thousands of species with them.