Index

Basic Resources   Prediction   Mitigation   Adaptation   Not yet classified

Introductory

This online bibliography is not very systematic and is very far from complete. It simply records some of the reading I did when preparing to write my 2005 February column for Computer and shortly thereafter.

Some of the links are bound to close, that is, what starts as open to the public will later only be available for purchase. The following few links are directly relevant to my original essay and could have been cited there.

Evert Wesker, Climate Change and the parable of the Boiled Frog (his menu has lots in it, for example The Climate at the End of the 20th Century)
The "Boiled Frog" Story

Naomi Oreskes, The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, Science, Vol.306, Issue 5702, p.1686, 2004 December 3 ("... there might be substanstive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This is not the case.")

Robin McKie, How we put the heat on nature, The Observer, 2005 January 30 (as the world's experts meet in Britain to discuss climate change, leading scientists warn that its effects could be unstoppable)

Michael Meacher, An end to infinity, The Guardian, 2005 February 9 (the Kyoto climate change treaty, which comes into force next week, is a start to realising Earth's limits; a good summary of the big picture)

George Monbiot, Mocking our dreams, The Guardian, 2005 February 15 (the reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink)

Basic Resources
Political Issues, Activists, Sceptics, Books Top

Spencer Weart, A Hyperlinked History of Climate Change Science, The American Institute of Physics (a remarkable resource)

The Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (Climate Change 2001: Reports)
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis

Vital Climate Graphics, UN Environment Programme (Introduction, Trends, Potential Impacts)

Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions (online; A Closer Look at Global Warming, a summary of the above)
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

Real Climate (a rich source of facts, arguments and links; introduction; about one of the people who started it)

The Earth's Atmosphere (mass ca. 5×1018kg, carbon dioxide 0.035%, so
Is there enough oxygen?

National Greenhouse Strategy (home page; Defence (PDF))

Tyndall Centre (includes FAQ)
Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia; demonstrations and links)

The Guardian, Climate Change (links to articles and other websites)

George Monbiot, Goodbye, Kind World, Guardian, 2004 August 10 (a well-documented and readable summary, counters sceptics and brings in economic factors)

William F Ruddiman, How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate ? (a bold hypothesis suggests that our ancestors' farming practices started warming the earth thousands of years before industrial society did, and thus delayed an imminent ice age)

Some Political Issues
Basic Resources, Activists, Books, Sceptics Top

The Buenos Aires Conference on Climate Change (COP 10)
Netster
AP Wire

Paul Brown, Aid for vulnerable islands declines (UN conference hears how small states are struggling with rising seas, pollution and cuts in foreign assistance)

The economics of climate change, The Economist, 2004 April 29 (in the third of a series on the Copenhagen Consensus project, we look at climate change; also, background links; this is the discounted cash flow put-off, but see John Quiggin's A curious consensus, AFR Review, 2005 January 21, examining that Consensus)

Can't Read, Can't Count Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2000 (major results; summary)

George Musser, Climate of Uncertainty, Scientific American, 2001 October (the unknowns in global warming research don't have to be showstoppers)
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
PR Watch

Compromise seals climate meeting, BBC, ??date?? (a climate conference overcomes last-minute objections to approve a deal on future talks on global warming)

Jonathan Dimbleby, The coming war, The Observer, 2004 October 31 (terrorism, climate change and world poverty are inextricably linked; we must conquer them before they destroy us)

Robin Cook, Only collective action can overcome the climate crisis, The Guardian, 2004 December 10

This "Please Miss, she did it too" politics gets us nowhere The Guardian, 2004 October 14 (Jackie Ashley: the climate and pensions crises demand a commitment to the future)

Blair bid for backing on climate, BBC, 2005 January 26 (Tony Blair seeks to win US backing for measures to tackle global warming, insisting they did not have to lead to cuts in living standards)
Jackie Ashley, To save the planet, bring back Byers, The Guardian, 2005 January 27 (the fight against global warming needs a champion in government)
Tom Burke, Going beyond Bush, The Guardian, 2005 January 26, (in hosting G8, the UK has a chance to affect climate change but should forget about influencing the US)

Adrian Wilkes, Debate, The Guardian, 2005 February 7 (it is a hard fact that it is cheaper to spend money lobbying against climate change policies than it is to invest in pollution control techniques)

Ashley Seager, Airlines warn of fuel tax meltdown, The Guardian, 2005 February 7 (airlines react furiously to moves by European governments to slap tax on aviation fuel)

David Sandalow, Winners and Sinners on Global Warming, The Boston Globe, 2005 February 10

Oliver Morgan, Tough job of saving the world, The Observer, 2005 February 20 (the protocol is in force, but there are diverging views on cleaning up energy generation)

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Plans to harness the wind and divide the moors, International Herald Tribune, 2005 January 26 (some Scots see wind turbines as costly blight)

Andrew Simms, Make climate change a policy principle - or drown in debt, The Guardian, 2005 March 7 (as a politician, Gordon Brown ensures the Treasury ticks all the boxes of public interest, including environment)

US gases to "dwarf world savings", BBC, 2005 March 7 (the president of Britain's leading science academy, the Royal Society, says the growth in US greenhouse gas emissions will more than offset cuts made by other industrialised nations)

Some Activists
Basic Resources, Politics, Books, Sceptics Top

Center for American Progress, Meeting the Climate Challenge, 2005 January 25

Worldwatch Institute

Climate Ark (a climate change portal; see especially introduction, trends and effects)

Heat is Online (latest news)

Rising Tide (a UK organisation; the European one, apparently dormant)

Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (list of climate change organizations)

Denial and Scepticism
Basic Resources, Politics, Activists, Books Top

George Marshall, Denial and the Psychology of Climate Apathy, The Ecologist, 2001 November

ME3, Climate Change Skeptics

The following two items were published together in The Guardian of 2004 October 21, and should be read together.
John Vidal, Forget climate change, that's the least of our worries, say Nobel winners (economists brought together by controversial scientists say money would be better spent on Aids, water and free trade; note that there is no Nobel Prize in Economics, it's in fact a Bank of Sweden Prize); Climate change is devastating the lives of millions, say charities (according to a report from a new coalition of fifteen organisations working to relieve poverty in more than 100 countries, changes in rainfall patterns and an increasing number of weather-related disasters such as floods and droughts are forcing poor people into destitution)
Relevant to the first essay: Clive Hamilton and Hal Turton, With Friends Like Bjorn Lomborg, Environmentalists Don't Need Enemies (PDF) (a critique of The Skeptical Economist)

Bob Carter, Some Australian Views on Climate Change (not the usual simplistic denial; worth reading critically)

Disinformation (from Heat is Online (see above))

David Adam, Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change, The Guardian, 2005 January 27 (lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change)

Duncan Bain, Science sceptics meet on climate, BBC, 2005 January 27 (scientists who question whether climate change is a threat are meeting in London to publicise their views; but read George Monbiot)

Conal Walsh, "Denial lobby" turn up the heat, The Observer, 2005 March 6 (the vocal minority sceptical of the threat of global warming are now targeting the UK)

Some Books
Basic Resources, Politics, Activists, Sceptics Top
Mark Lynas, High Tide: News from a warming world, Flamingo, London, 2004 (extract: Meltdown part one, Meltdown part two, The Guardian, 2004 February 14 (Alaska is a huge oil producer and has become rich on the proceeds; but it has suffered the consequences: global warming, faster and more terrifyingly than anyone could have predicted))

T. Athanasiou and P. Baer, Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2002 (includes discussion of the likelihood and effects of drastic climate change; review)

Michael Crichton, State of Fear, HarperCollins, 2004 December 8, 320pp., ISBN 073228094X (a large-selling sceptical work, typical review, another, another, another, another, but see dissent, dissent, semi-dissent, rebuttal (another copy, the original, with lengthy forum) rebuttal II)

J. Leggett, The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era, Penguin Books, London, 1999

Jonathan Porritt, Man vs nature, The Guardian, 2005 January 15 (review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond)
Leader, Cutting the last tree, The Guardian, 2005 January 15 (Professor Diamond's new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, summons up a nightmare for the modern world)
Jared Diamond, Disasters waiting to happen, The Guardian, 2005 January 6 (the events of December 26 have shown us all how fragile our existence is; the tsunami disaster was an unavoidable natural disaster, which could happen at any time; but not all disasters are so beyond our control)
Jared Diamond, Reasons to be cheerful, The Guardian, 2005 January 13 (people often ask me, "Jared, are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?"; I answer, "I'm a cautious optimist")

Prediction
CO2 Levels,   Warming,   Sea Levels,   Shrinking Ice,   Bush Fires,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

John Vidal, The planet goes haywire, The Guardian, 2004 August 27 (fires and floods, heatwaves and hurricanes - it's been a year of extreme weather; and there's more on the way as global warming kicks in)

Climate Modelling

climateprediction.net (also known as Climate@Home, intended to work like the more famous seti@home; also gateway)
Modelling the climate, The Economist, 2005 January 27 (how to model the climate on the cheap)
Richard Black, Alarm at new climate warning BBC, 2005 January 26 (global temperatures could rise by as much as 11 degrees Celsius, a major climate prediction projects suggests)

NOAA (climate home page)

Gaby Hinsliff and Robin McKie, Devastation linked to global warming, The Observer, 2004 September 12 (scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year; Special Report)

Alex Kirby, Scientists assess climate dangers, BBC, 2005 January 30 (averting the worst impact of a warming world is the theme of a high-level UK scientific conference starting on 1 February)
Alex Kirby, Scientists debate climate dangers, BBC, 2005 February 1 (two hundred scientists from around the world will try to agree on the definitions of temperature danger levels)
Richard Black, Scientists' grim climate report, BBC, 2005 February 3 (global warming risks are more serious than previously thought, a major UK climate conference reports)

CO2 Levels
Prediction,   Warming,   Sea Levels,   Shrinking Ice,   Bush Fires,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

World Energy Outlook, IEA, 2003 (predicts world CO2 emissions rising 70% above 2002 levels by 2030)

  • IPCC, Aviation and the Global Atmosphere: Summary for Policymakers, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (describes the dire climatic effects of air transport; more recently The Environmental Effects of Civil Aircraft in Flight, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 2002)

    Paul Brown, Climate fear as carbon levels soar, The Guardian, 2004 October 11 (scientists are bewildered by a sharp rise of CO2 for second year running)

    Alex Kirby, Climate crisis near "in 10 years", BBC, 2005 January 24 (the time for limiting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent runaway climate change is very short, a taskforce says)

    Tim Radford, Two-thirds of resources "used up", The Guardian, 2005 March 30 (a report warns that almost two-thirds of natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded)
    Leader: The ends of the Earth, The Guardian, 2005 march 31 (anyone wanting a vision of how the world might look in 50 years' time can today go to the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti)

    Warming Effects
    Prediction,   CO2 Levels,   Sea Levels,   Shrinking Ice,   Bush Fires,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

    Fred Pearce, Heat will soar as haze fades, New Scientist, Vol.178, No.2398, 2003 June 7 (ironically, reducing smoke and smog will increase global warming)
    Peat bogs harbour carbon time bomb, New Scientist, Vol.183, No.2455, 2004 July 10 (peat bogs are breaking down and emitting carbon dioxide)
    Harbingers of doom?, New Scientist, Vol.183, No.2457, 2004 July 24 (higher temperatures are evaporating cloud cover)

    Stephen Cauchi, Green markers croaking it, The Age, 2004 October 15 (frogs and other amphibians are dying off in Australia and around the world in unprecedented numbers)

    Dan Glaister, Arizona's shrinking lake provides a stark warning to US, The Guardian, 2004 October 11 (lake's water level dropped by 40 metres after long drought)

    Andrew C Revkin, NASA calls 2004 the fourth-warmest year on record, International Herald Tribune, 2005 February 11 (last year was the fourth warmest since systematic temperature measurements began around the world in the 19th century)
    John Vidal and Paul Brown, Bear facts point to global warming in arctic, The Guardian, 2005 January 15 (mild winter sets record for higher than normal temperatures, and leaves nature confused)
    Antoine Jacob, Winds of change disrupt Arctic life, Guardian Weekly, 2004 December 17
    Arctic rivers "flowing faster", BBC, 2005 January 20 (northern rivers are pouring more fresh water into the Arctic ocean)

    Associated Press, A warning on climate's impact on Africa, International Herald Tribune, 2005 February 3 (rising global temperatures will hit Africa's poor the hardest, reducing their ability to deal with disease, feed themselves and earn a living)

    Climate "threatens" Arctic lakes, BBC, 2005 March 1 (Arctic lakes are undergoing dramatic changes in response to climate changes)

    Rising Sea Levels
    Prediction,   CO2 Levels,   Warming,   Shrinking Ice,   Bush Fires,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

    Potential impact of sea-level rise on Bangladesh, UN Environment Program

    Lindley Hanson, Sea Level Rise, Salem State College, (with links)

    Sea Change: Rising Ocean Levels, Johns Hopkins

    Sea-level rise in Bangladesh and The Netherlands, GermanWatch

    Sea Level Rising

    Edward Marriott, Living on the edge, The Observer, 2005 January 9 (more than a million people in Britain risk losing their homes to the sea; now, as our shorelines crumble and beaches disappear, the government is urging homeowners to "make more space for water")

    Tian Xiuzhen, Scientists discuss future climate in delta region China Daily, 2004 October 15, p.3 (compared with 2000, the sea levels of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang will rise by 22, 13 and 28 millimetres respectively by 2006, and 45, 27 and 55 millimetres by 2013)

    Paul Rincon, Greenhouse gases "do warm oceans", BBC, 2005 February 17 (Scripps researchers tell a US conference they have "compelling" evidence that ocean warming is linked to greenhouse gas emissions; more)

    Scientists find Southern Ocean cooler, less salty ("Whether it's a natural cycle ... or if it's climate change, it's an indication that the deep ocean can respond much more rapidly to changes that are happening near the surface than we believed possible")

    The Indian Ocean tsunami and sea level rise: Lessons to be learned

    UK seas "in peril", BBC, 2005 March 2 (fishing and climate change are harming marine life)

    Justin Mullins, London Broil?, IEEE Spectrum, 2005 February 28 (the UK capital prepares for rising tides and temperatures)

    Shrinking Ice
    Prediction,   CO2 Levels,   Warming,   Sea Levels,   Bush Fires,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

    Paul Brown, Peak of Mt Kilimanjaro exposed, The Guardian, 2005 March 14 (Kilimanjaro's trademark snowy cap, at 5,895 metres, is now all but gone - 15 years before scientists predicted it would melt through global warming)

    Major Greenland glacier, once stable, now shrinking dramatically, Ohio State University

    Tim Radford, Global warming may melt Greenland's ice, scientists warn, The Guardian, 2004 April 8

    Molly Bentley, Earth's permafrost starts to squelch BBC, 2004 December 29 (scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw)

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Beseiged mountain ecosystems start to turn off the tap

    Lisa Mastny, The Melting of Earth's Ice Cover

    Jamie Wilson, Global warming "will leave Arctic ice-free", The Guardian, 2004 November 3 (the Arctic ice-cap is melting at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all)

    Shiela Watt-Cloutier, "Our land is changing - soon yours will too", The Guardian, 2005 January 15 (while global warming is affecting the entire planet, there is a scientific consensus that it is impacting the Arctic must faster)

    Hudson's warmer bay, The Economist, 2004 October 7 (less ice means new transport opportunities)

    Antarctic's ice "melting faster", BBC, 2005 February 2 (British scientists find global warming is melting the ice of Antarctica faster than previously thought)
    Charles Clover, Scientists paint chilling picture of Antarctica, The Age, 2005 February 3 (the discovery by British scientists that the West Antarctic ice sheet is unstable overturns the previous international consensus that it would take 1000 years for the floating ice to respond to rising temperatures)

    Jonathan Watts, Highest icefields will not last 100 years, The Guardian, 2004 September 24 (China's glacier research warns of deserts and floods due to warming)

    Bradley Klapper, "Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years", The Guardian, 2005 January 31 (many Arctic animals could be extinct within 20 years because of global warming)
    Bear study sparks climate fears (experts in Scotland issue a fresh warning of the threat to polar bears from global warming)

    Maude Barlow, The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water Supply, International Forum on Globalization
    The Global Water Crisis

    Bushfires
    Prediction,   CO2 Levels,   Warming,   Sea Levels,   Shrinking Ice,   Abrupt Climate Change Top

    Global warming bushfire risk under investigation ABC Radio 2004 December 26

    A bad summer for fires, Economist, 2004 June 17 (will this year see yet another series of forest blazes?)

    Abrupt Climate Change
    Prediction,   CO2 Levels,   Warming,   Sea Levels,   Shrinking Ice,   Bush Fires Top

    Ian Sample, Pressure points, The Guardian, 2004 October 14 (cast an eye over the many forests' worth of scientific literature on global warming and it quickly decomes clear that working out what a temperature rise of a few degrees will mean for life anywhere on the planet is far from straightforward)

    William Sweet, Clashing Climate Catastrophists, Spectrum Online, 2004 May (will the real Yoda please stand up?; extraresources)

    Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security, October 2003 (a report to the Pentagon; this primary link seems to have been taken down - perhaps can be found at TAI EMS GBN Grist (PDF) Pax Humana ED (PDF); searching Google gave around 900 hits in 2005 December)
    Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will kill us, The Observer, 2004 February 22 (secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war; Britain will be "Siberian" in less than 20 years; threat to the world is greater than terrorism)

    Richard B Alley, Abrupt Climate Change, Scientific American, 2004 November (winter temperatures plummeting 6oC and sudden droughts scorching farmland around the globe are not just the stuff of scary movies; such striking climate jumps have happened before - sometimes within a matter of years)

    Michael Benton, When Life Nearly Died: The greatest mass extinction of all time, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003 (the end-Permian mass extinction by a global warming less severe than predicted for today's, and which killed off 95% of the world's species and left alive only one large land animal; review)

    Gavin A Schmidt and Drew T Shindell Ocean Burps and Climate Change? (in the Paleocene/Eocene transition of 55 million years ago average temperatures at high latitudes rose by up to 7oC possibly caused by an undersea methane burp; also Hans Renssen et al.)

    E. Suess et al., Flammable Ice, Scientific American, 1999 November (the possibility of a "methane burp" triggering runaway global warming)

    National Academy of Sciences, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (the climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic and often extreme shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less; especially Chapter 4, Global Warming as a possible Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change (However, even if melting Arctic sea ice does not markedly influence the THC [thermohaline circulation (north Atlantic)], sea-ice disappearance is likely to have radical consequences for Arctic ecosystems and possibly regional climate. It is not now possible to quantify such possibilities [my emphasis])

    Jonathan Adams, Mark Maslin and Ellen Thomas, Sudden Climate Changes During the Quaternary (the time span of the past few million years has been punctuated by many rapid climate transitions, most of them on time scales of centuries to decades or even less [my emphasis])

    James F Kasting, When Methane Made Climate, Scientific American, 2004 July (a precedent for climate change from 2.5 billion years ago)

    Jonathan Leake, Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows, Times Online, 2005 May 8 (climate change researchers have detected the first sign of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream - the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing)

    Mitigation       Top
    The Essentials of Contraction and Convergence, Global Commons Institute, London, 2003 (a practical basis for mitigating global warming)

    S Julio Friedmann and Thomas Homer-Dixon, Out of the Energy Box, Foreign Affairs, Vol.83, No.6, November/December 2004 (global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions will be a difficult problem to solve; reducing emissions by slowing growth is too painful. and neither conservation nor alternative energy sources are currently viable answers; governments and industry should focus on promoting technologies such as "carbon sequestration" that trap harmful emissions and bury them safely underground)

    Matthew L Wald, Questions about a Hydrogen Economy, Scientific American, 2004 May (ultimately hydrogen may not be the universal cure-all, although it may be appropriate for certain applications; transport may not be one of them)

    Warwick J McKibben and Peter J Wilcoxen, Climate Change after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach, Brookings Review, 2002 Spring

    Genetically modified trees, The Economist, 2005 January 6 (tailoring trees to better sequester carbon)

    January 20

    Plastics created from orange peel, BBC, 2005 January 20 (US scientists discover how to make plastics from orange peel, using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide)

    Understanding the global"water crisis", Economist, 2004 May 13 (in the fifth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project, a look at water and sanitation)

    Power brokers warn energy is the hot topic, The Age, 2004 September 6 (it is a dilemma that has no easy answer - how does the world halve its dependence on fossil fuels by 2005 while electricity demand soars?)

    George Monbiot, There is an alternative, The Guardian, 2004 September 7 (politicians are once more revving up the debate that only nuclear power can save the planet)

    Tom Burke, Nuclear delusion, The Guardian, 2005 March 2 (the case for a new atomic dawn to meet the carbon challenge is holed from stem to stern)

    Jerome Monahan, Class eco-war, The Guardian, 2005 January 18 (climate change is a vast issue that can easily overwhelm students, but by teaching them that every effort helps, you can support sparrows, contribute to charities and even save the school some cash)

    Kevin Lindgaard, The chips are down, The Guardian, 2005 January 19 (biomass power fuelled by crops, and supported by millions from the government, has largely failed in the UK, so can the latest attempt make it work?)

    Richard Black, Carbon burial "is climate option", BBC, 2005 February 3 (chief UK scientist, Sir David King, says petroleum firms should store carbon dioxide in ageing oil wells)

    Can Carbon Sequestration Solve Global Warming?, Science Daily, 2003 February 18 (original)

    Hugh Saddler, Chris Riedy and Robert Passey, Geosequestration: What is it and how much can it contribute to a sustainable energy policy for Australia? (summary; supporting on-line material)

    Zoe Williams, I remain a hypocrite, The Guardian, 2004 February 8 (like any decent, averagely long-sighted human being, I delight in the proposals to stigmatise SUV drivers)

    Brian Wilson, Why coal can be top of the heap, The Observer, 2005 February 20 (coal must have a future, simply because we depend on it for so much of our electricity)

    MPs' flights "pay for clean air", BBC, 2005 March 5 (Roger Harrabin: the UK plans to promote clean energy in developing countries by paying every time ministers board a plane)

    Scheme rewards "green" farmers, BBC, 2005 March 3 (farmers will be rewarded for protecting and enhancing the environment under a new scheme launched by tha UK government)

    Local food "greener than organic", BBC, 2005 March 2 (buying locally produced food is even more important for the environment than buying organic)

    Adaptation       Top

    Department of the Environment and Heritage, National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan 2004--2007, Australian Government, 2005 January 6 (there is now evidence and international consensus that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity are substantially responsible for driving recent climate change; with increasing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, further climate change is forecast)

    George Marshall, The Human Environment: the scenic (landscape structures) implications in the UK of psychological and societal responses to climate change, Landscapes, V.3, No.2, 2002 Autumn (this paper suggests three scenarios for social responses to climate change and considers the implications of each for the British landscape)

    Alex Kirby, UK works for climate adaptation, BBC, 2005 January 27 (the UK says it is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just try to avert it)

    Lester R Brown, Hybrid vehicles: The future is blowing in the wind, Herald Tribune, 2004 October 30 (gas-electric hybrid engines and advanced-design wind engines offer a way to wean ourselves from imported oil)

    Brian Wilson, Like it or not, the fossils aren't dead yet, The Observer, 2004 September 19 (while waiting for a "miracle" fuel, we must learn how to burn hydrocarbons more cleanly)

    Pipe dreaming, The Age, 2004 October 29 (three long-term factors will put the squeeze on Melbourne's water - population growth, the need to return water to stressed rivers, and climate change)

    Web to the rescue Guardian, 2005 January ?? (Leader: hundreds of sites have been set up, mainly by volunteers, to identify victims of the tsunami and to coordinate rescue work)

    Global warming and insurance, The Economist, 2004 September 30 (why climate change could mean higher insurance premiums)

    Fight to the last resort as Alpine crisis looms, The Observer, 2004 September 19 (with climate change taking a grip on the continent, the Alps are set to become a battleground between developers and conservationists)

    George Monbiot, An answer in Somerset, The Guardian, 2004 August 24 (the Age of Entropy is here; we should all now be learning how to live without oil)

    David Owen, Green Manhattan, Australian Financial Review, 2005 January 21 (debunks some environmental shibboleths; New Yorker and PDF)

    Reg Morrison, Hydrogen: creator and destroyer of worlds, Australian Rationalist, 2004 Spring, pp.37-44 (PDF; an interesting theory that homo sapiens is a plague and will therefore be killed off as a protective act of Gaia)

    Tim Radford, Global warming the key to life on Mars, The Guardian, 2005 February 7 (US scientists think up a new way to create a second home - by warming up the atmosphere of Mars)

    Not Yet Classified         Top
    And maybe not all that pertinent.

    Economist

    Asia's tsunami, The Economist, 2005 January 1 (

    July 29
    Food as a development tool (global hunger is on the wane but it is still hampering the growth of people, and of economies)
    Hunger, intelligence and development (malnutrition makes the poor less productive; to beat poverty, hunger must first be defeated)

    May 13
    Chinese emigration (emigration is being driven by relative, not absolute, poverty)

    May 6
    Feeding the hungry (in the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project, we look at hunger and malnutrition)

    April 29
    Why phones are replacing cars (and why this is a good thing)

    April 8
    Martin Ravallion on global poverty (in our issue of March 11th we wrote about global poverty; Martin Ravallion, one of the World Bank's foremost researchers, replies)

    China stuff

    October 21
    Joschka Fischer's new world order, sunny side up (Simon Tisdall: to a world beset by an unending "war on terror", insecurity and cultural strife, and lacking agreed political direction, Mr Fischer offers a positive vision for the 21st century)

    The Observer, October 17
    Expert remedies to solve a whole world of problems (Juliette Jowit: a group of economists has produced a list of 17 projects which they claim are the best way for the world to spend its limited funds)

    October 11
    Toxic smog shrouds Beijing (pollution forces cancellation of air show for Chirac)

    October 7
    Governing the world economy (the G7 no longer governs the world's economy; does anyone?)

    The Observer, October 3
    The other population crisis (Robin McKie: from China to Italy to India - the world is facing a baby drought; what will falling numbers mean for the globe?)

    September
    CACM News 2004 September (includes Glacweb on global warming)

    September 30
    Scares ahead for the world economy (can the world economy sustain its stunning pace of growth?)

    September 16
    The Caribbean after Hurricane Ivan (devastating - but it might have been even worse in the Caribbean)