MAD Climate – Making a Difference

FLOODING risk in Merseyside is set to quadruple if urgent action is not taken to tackle climate change, it was warned last night. The sea level is due to rise by 32cms and the average summer temperature increase by almost 4°C unless global warming is curbed.

FLOODING risk in Merseyside is set to quadruple if urgent action is not taken to tackle climate change, it was warned last night. The sea level is due to rise by 32cms and the average summer temperature increase by almost 4°C unless global warming is curbed.

Royal Society report says current government policy is not enough to pay for green technology Consumers will need to pay more for energy if the UK is to have any chance of developing the technologies needed to tackle climate change, according to a group of leading scientists and engineers. In a Royal Society study to be published today, the experts said that the government must put research into ...

Nearly 18 months after its launch, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Climate Change fund is bottom of its peer group, suffering a 40.6% drop in value.

The epic battle over universal health care is still to be fought, but Barack Obama moved to capitalise on a defining moment of his presidency yesterday - a vote in Congress to act on global warming - saying the time had arrived for America to show international leadership on climate change.

Our brains struggle with big, painful change. The rational, least painful change is to stop wasting money building tanks What would we be doing now if we took ­climate change seriously? Last week the ­government ­released a ­report on the likely temperature changes in the UK. It shows that life at the end of this century will bear no relationship to life at the beginning. It should have ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives has approved climate change legislation that is a high priority of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress.

The US House of Representatives on Friday narrowly passed historic legislation to cut carbon emissions blamed for climate change, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory.

US lawmakers on Friday took up historic legislation to fight climate change as President Barack Obama's allies forecast a narrow victory they said would restore shaky US leadership on global warming.

US President Barack Obama, joined by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, touted a climate change bill being debated by Congress Friday as representing "enormous progress" but said more needed to be done.