Posts tagged climate change

Scoop for the Guardian: Natural England drops peatland bog-burning inquiry

An image of El Nino spreading its warmth in 1997, taken by the Topex/Posiden satellite. The white represents the warm current originating the Pacific. El Nino has been implicated in civil conflicts in a Nature paper published this week. I wrote a report on the pattern for SciDev.net. Does the effect have implications for climate change? Not directly, say the study authors, but Mark Cane said at a press briefing: “[Our study] shows beyond any doubt that climate variations do have an impact on the propensity of people to fight in civil conflicts. It is difficult to see why that won’t be carried over into a world that is disrupted by global warming.” Pic: Wikimedia

An image of El Nino spreading its warmth in 1997, taken by the Topex/Posiden satellite. The white represents the warm current originating the Pacific.

El Nino has been implicated in civil conflicts in a Nature paper published this week. I wrote a report on the pattern for SciDev.net. Does the effect have implications for climate change? Not directly, say the study authors, but Mark Cane said at a press briefing: “[Our study] shows beyond any doubt that climate variations do have an impact on the propensity of people to fight in civil conflicts. It is difficult to see why that won’t be carried over into a world that is disrupted by global warming.”

Pic: Wikimedia

Mother Nature’s speaking up - and she’s a bitch. It’s called climate change.
This is a line from Change, a play built up from monologues about climate change, which I reviewed for the New Scientist Culturelab blog.
My blog on climate change and human rights for the Frontline Club.  From left to right: Lawrence McGinty, health and science editor at ITV News, Marine Destrez, a researcher at Leadership for Environment and Development International, Julian Rush, Channel 4 News science correspondent (chair), Colm Ó Cuanacháin, senior director of campaigns at Amnesty and Christoph Schwarte, staff lawyer at Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD). I’m also reading a book called Eradicating Ecocide, by Polly Higgins. It’s about environmental justice.

My blog on climate change and human rights for the Frontline Club. 

From left to right: Lawrence McGinty, health and science editor at ITV News, Marine Destrez, a researcher at Leadership for Environment and Development International, Julian Rush, Channel 4 News science correspondent (chair), Colm Ó Cuanacháin, senior director of campaigns at Amnesty and Christoph Schwarte, staff lawyer at Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD).

I’m also reading a book called Eradicating Ecocide, by Polly Higgins. It’s about environmental justice.