climate change

China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.

I've been accused on this blog of being mean to climate deniersA -A of calling them "deniers" when they fancy themselves "skeptics".

A Well, what else do we call people who ignore and even distort evidence that doesn't support their prejudice?

I can think of words that are a lot worse than "denier", and changing our terminology to suit deniers is ...

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(Uppsala University) Which factors increase the risk for armed conflict and war? What circumstances make conflict resolution more likely to be successful?

If work for peace is to bear fruit; these questions needs to be answered. Today, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program releases a new dataset which opens up new possibilities for the study of armed conflict.

Using these data, useful findings relating to climate change and armed conflict have already been made.

This week's G-20 summit was dominated by Europe's debt crisis, but developing countries want the grouping of major economies to refocus on a bigger global agenda that includes creating jobs, improving farming and fighting climate change.

(Stanford University) Democrats who took "green" positions on climate change won much more often than did Democrats who remained silent in 2008 and 2010, according to Stanford University researchers.

Republicans who took "not-green" positions won less often than Republicans who remained silent, the researchers found.

(Stanford University) Candidates gain votes by taking a "green" position on climate change -- endorsing the existence of warming, human causation, and the need for taking action to address it, according to a Stanford University study.

A warming planet means rising oceans, but seaports are not prepared for the expensive construction they will need to protect themselves, according a global survey of ports conducted by Stanford researchers.

But the researchers have created a computer model that will help ports with their planning.

Environment | climate change | The tiny islands of the Pacific Ocean appear to be the very the picture of climate change vulnerability—some rise such a short distance above current sea leve

Due to rising population, climate change, and environmental degradation, natural disasters are increasing in frequency.

Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the "generational challenge" of climate change.

Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds.

Instead, we are being told of the purported economic payoffs—above all, the promise of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality.