Blair may be saying that a deal on climate could be in the pipeline, but every day our politicians dither, the science gets stronger. No more so than the latest report from 2000 of the world’s leading climate scientists, who...
Something of a melting ice feel to start this morning. Mountain glaciers are shrinking three times faster than they were in the 1980s, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), which continuously studies a sample of 30 glaciers around...
There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in...
Reporting back from Senator Boxer’s first hearing as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which included in-person or written statements (all of which will be made publicly available by the Committee) from approximately a third of the...
No surprises here really. The European Commission has missed a vital chance to impose tough curbs on CO2 emissions from cars after fierce lobbying from the car lobby, especially German manufacturers. Instead the Commission will opt today for a blueprint...
Oil and gas production in the North Sea is now expected to be about 10 per cent lower over the next few years than previously thought, according to the annual survey from the UK Offshore Operators’ Association. The main reason...
More trouble for BP. Its Russian joint venture has been given three months to increase production at one of the world's largest gas fields "by a technically impossible amount" or face losing the field altogether. The order, from a local...
As if taking a cue from T-Rex Tillerson that demand for oil will keep rising, the International Energy Agency has raised its outlook for world oil demand for the first time over a year, citing upward revisions to the estimated...
A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of climate change, scientists are preparing to warn their governments. New studies of Greenland and Antarctica have forced a the IPCC to conclude there is...
All the world’s extra oil supply is likely to come from expensive and environmentally damaging unconventional sources within 15 years, according to a detailed study by oil consultants, Wood Mackenzie. They have calculated that the world holds 3,600bn barrels of...
