Updated May 18th 2012                                         

 Globally, 9 of the 10 warmest years
on record occurred since 2000

From NASA comes this amazing 26-second video, depicting how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1880, the year  scientists call the beginning of the “modern record.” 

Keystone XL pipeline  Breaking news: Obama to reject  Updated  April 26th -  more

KYOTO PROTOCOL Plus other global initiatives. Durban talks postpone action Latest update December 11  - more

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We cannot repeal the laws of nature. If we continue to do nothing, the floods, wildfires, heat waves and extreme weather that have wreaked havoc across our nation, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars annually, will increase and intensify. And future generations will never understand why we squandered our shrinking opportunity to protect the planet. Henry Waxman  link      

Latest editorial - December 1st 2011 The next 500 Years of Sea Level Rise  -  by Michael D. Lemonick of ClimateCentral.org - read here  continue to all 10 editorials in archive

• Solar -  most installed energy source in Europe in 2011
• Britain - 299MW wind farm approved for Wales
• Carbon Sequestration - page updated and revised
• Australia - Carbon tax will raise $25 billion
• Fracking - Vermont first state to ban fracking

Severn Suzuki (age 12) speaks at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit  link (See also the speech by 13 year-old Felix Finkbeider of Germany in New York in 2011.) Canadian student, Anjali Appadurai, offers powerful appeal in Durban on behalf of the world's young people not in power for climate action now.

Pentagon report - climate change will destroy us. A secret 2004 report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by the London Observer, says climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters - read more

New
March 15, 2012:
Urban air pollution will become biggest environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades, due to climate change, loss of biodiversity, water and the health impacts of pollution.

Jan. 13 2012: 
Reducing amounts of methane and soot would diminish warming by ½C by 2050 - buying a little time for the world in the fight against global warming.