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“It is one thing to talk; it’s another thing to act,” said President Bush.

Quote from photo caption at top of The White House > Policies in Focus > Environment page today, is dated 7 February 2007, and I am well aware of that. However, that’s no need for the same quote not to apply in today’s climate change context. The world’s scientists have collaborated and done their best; now it is time for the world’s policymakers to collaborate and do their best for the good of the world.

Update: after publishing this post, I went back to check that link on The White House website and it had been replaced. No matter. I still had the page open in a tab—you can see that I had already visited the speech linked below in red—and so here’s a screen grab:

Continue reading IPCC Synthesis Report press briefing (don’t mention key vulnerabilities or dangerous climate change!)…

Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched the final part of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), namely the Synthesis Report (SYR).
Continue reading IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report Release Valencia…

Latest IPCC Report Highlights New Global Warming Findings

Continue reading IPCC Synthesis Report Briefing: Kerry, Ebi, Lyons, Clapp worth listening to…

In BBC NEWS Science/Nature section, today’s article is:

Unravelling the sceptics
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

wherein Richard Black explains how he has tried to collect, collate and analyse responses from a group of self-identified climate sceptics* in an attempt to understand what exactly it is that they believe, and agree on, if anything.

(What he doesn’t say is that, to be successful, sceptics do not have to agree on anything. As a matter of fact, as long as they generate confusion to prevent action being taken, in many cases they are achieving their own objectives. Ah, well. Perhaps that point’s taken for granted? I don’t think it should be. Propaganda tactics are not that well understood by most people.)

The climate questionnaire asked: Continue reading BBC climate change project this week…

Cambridge University Press publishes reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This year, it is publishing the IPCC Climate Change 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), and has already published contributions from the three working groups:

Continue reading American think-tank finances Swindle and Apocalypse No! for UK and US students*…

Some skeptics, such as Myron Ebell, who directs energy and global warming policy at

Continue reading Duh….

For teachers and students, here’s a list to key pages on the Royal Society site that deal with climate change. I shall add similar lists of links for the Met Office and NERC sites soon Continue reading Royal Society climate change resources…

11 October 2007

Following the High Court ruling on the climate change film An Inconvenient Truth – by Al Gore, the Met Office today welcomes the outcome.

The Met Office advised the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) on the guidance that will now go with the film, and also helped all those involved in the case gain a complete understanding of what is known about climate change and where uncertainties remain.

Director Climate Science John Mitchell said: “The Met Office is pleased that the evidence for climate change had been accepted in a British court of law in line with the IPCC findings that warming our planet is unequivocal, and that it is very likely that most of this warming is caused by man-made greenhouse gases.

“We welcome the fact that  such an accessible film is being shown to schools so that young people will be informed on climate change and encouraged to engage with the issues that will affect their future.”

The Met Office continuously works closely with DCSF, providing educational aids on both weather and climate change.

William ~ thanks for combing through the ‘errors’ with a fine scientist’s toothcomb The way the AIT case story is reported initially and thereafter is of interest to me, so I am glad you have done the nitpicking on the science.

PeteB’s sentiment sounds fair enough, but there is no time in the school year for, say, a thirteen-year-old, let alone a teacher, to read through the complete IPCC AR4 reports looking for evidence that supports or disagrees with AIT. (TGGWS is obvious: kids can intuitively tell when adults are lying.)

MarkUK is right: there is loads of information about Tuvalu’s predicament Continue reading Note to Stoat…

Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.