Greetings Sadhanaites !
We here in the Forest wanted to begin a regular stream of news/thoughts/ideas related to climate change in the Global News section of the web site. There is an incredibly deep and wide-ranging amount of information on this pressing matter available online and we thought to share some of it with Sadhana Foresters.
We start off with an update on the latest research into future temperature increases associated with production of current levels of greenhouse gases. From the Haaretz newspaper, based in Israel: Plausible Average Warming Scenario by Mid-Century .
The Haaretz article mentions a study, produced by researchers at the UK’s Meteorological Office Hadley Centre and presented at an Oxford University conference this past week: here it is.
We leave you with a word of optimism from the lead climate change research on the aforementioned study, Richard Betts: “It’s important to stress it’s not a doomsday scenario, we do have time to stop it happening if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.”
The world can begin to heal at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. Let’s hope !
Photo Credit: askehbl.wordpress.com
-Josh
good info, thanx josh.
just strange that on the guardian site you link to (and also when you are on guardian-environment-copenhagen) the big advertisements on top and side are for shell! so here is the link to Screw the Environment, let’s get rich, an article from greenpeace about how shell exploits oil sources like currently the Canadian Tar Sands and doesn’t care about environmental issues at all. A quote from the article:
Even all the slippery corporate-speak in the world can’t obscure that message. In more straightforward language, it might read: “forget the environment; we’re in it for the cash.”