Commentary & Opinion

Commentary & Opinion

March 8, 2010 Climate change science: the evidence is clear

Source:ABC - AU

This afternoon ABC Science broadcaster Robyn Williams delivered the 2010 Commonwealth Day address at a lunch organised by the Commonwealth Day Council of NSW at the NSW Parliament. The theme was Science, Technology and Society....

March 4, 2010 Let's Talk About It: Discussing the Science and Politics of Global Warming

Source:New York Times

What have you heard about global warming in the news lately? Is the scientific evidence for global warming in question? Are politicians and world leaders doing enough to curb carbon emissions? What does this winter’s unusually...

March 3, 2010 Where Is Al Gore?

Source:Robert R. McMillan

Again, let me state that I am not a scientist. But, when I do these columns each week, I try to be a factual as possible. As we have faced the coldest winter, for an extended period of time (in Florida), I could not help think...[more]

March 3, 2010 The health risks of a big carbon footprint

Source:BBC News

It is difficult to open a newspaper or watch a news report without hearing the words 'climate change'. Doctors have united under the Climate and Health Council But while the iconic images might be of the polar ice caps melting,...

February 16, 2010 Global collective action is the key to solving climate change

Source:John Sauven, Guardian.co.uk

Ian Katz says "it is hard to see where the political leadership for a global [climate] deal will come from" (The case for climate action must be remade from the ground upwards, 9 February). With climate science under siege and...

February 12, 2010 Climate's snow job

Source:Thomas Kostigen, MarketWatch

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Both global warming skeptics and climate change believers are using the snowstorms pounding the East Coast of the United States as fodder to further their debate.

February 12, 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Update -SEC DECISION RAISES THE BAR FOR CORPORATE (ISSUER) DISCLOSURE ON SUSTAINABILITY RISKS

Source:Hank Boerner, Chairman Governance & Accountability Institute, BusinessWired

One more shoe drops – this one a size 15 or more – in the rising and accelerating importance of ESG & Sustainability corporate key performance indicators and ESG-related factors for investment management and financial analysis,...

February 11, 2010 Global Warming, Environmentalism and Related Issues: The Other View

Source:P. K. Gautam, Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis

Governments, as members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), acknowledge that change in the Earth’s climate and its adverse effects are a common concern of human kind. Countries are concerned that...

February 10, 2010 NGOs Rush In To Fill the Void

Source:Richard Barr

Government Isn’t Everything… With President Obama’s presidency looking more like it will not be able to pull off cap and trade; any carbon tax; and any meaningful reduction of the kind that we need to make a dent in world wide...[more]

February 10, 2010 Senate offers some hope for legislation to combat climate change

Source:Washington Post

CLIMATE CHANGE legislation, according to conventional wisdom, is all but dead for the year. It fell victim to Senate gridlock, yawning gaps between lawmakers over how and even whether to tackle the issue and President Obama's...

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