• 'The Hellish Vision of Life on a Hotter Planet ' by MARK LYNAS Buried within the newly released IPCC report is an apocalyptic warning: if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, global warming by the end of the century could total 6.... >> read more
  
  
• 'Go Out and Save the World!' by TIM FLANNERY Climate change is happening because too much CO2 in the air is trapping heat, melting the ice caps and fuelling hurricanes. Species are already going extinct, and people living in the Arctic and on coral atolls are b.... >> read more

• 'Climate Crisis' by GEORGE MONBIOT I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all ... >> read more

• 'The Choice is Ours' by MARK LYNAS For me the most memorable photos of the 2004 Asian tsunami were taken by two Canadian holidaymakers, John and Jackie Knill, on the beach at Khao Lak in Thailand. Their first picture shows the receded tide: the sea is eerily... >> read more

• 'Climate Change is With Us' by FRED PEARCE, New Scientist Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin A ... >> read more

• 'An Inconvenient Truth' by AL GOREThe 10 warmest years in history werein the last 14 years. Last year South America experienced its first hurricane. Japan and the Pacific are setting records for typhoons. Hurricane Katrina passed over Florida,doubled back over th... >> read more

• 'Climate Changes Everything' by HERBIE GIRARDETThe major climate changes now certain to affect the planet change everything. In 300 years we will have burned 300 million years worth of fossil fuels. Some of us are having a great time as a result, but in the pro... >> read more

Further Climate Change Articles

• 'Time For Something Different' by JAMES GUSTAVE SPETHThanks to excellent media coverage based on first-rate science, a resurgent Al Gore and the impresarial genius of producer Laurie David, the U.S. public may have turned an important corner in acknowle .... >> read more

• 'Finally, Fired Up Over Global Warming' by BILL McKIBBEN You've seen or heard of Al Gore's movie. The pictures of Hurricane Katrina remain in the back of your mind. You've sweated through this record summer. You sense - with just a bit of panic - that there's r ... >> read more