MAD Climate – Making a Difference

A CAMBRIDGE academic who has suggested importing solar energy from the Sahara and using Scottish lakes as giant batteries is to be named the government’s scientific adviser on climate change.

Fifteen-year-old Jordan Stephens, Defra's young climate change champion for the south east, takes us through the A-Z of climate change with a selection of expert interviews.

This richly illustrated programme uses animation and natural history footage to provide an introduction to the topic of climate change at Key Stage 3/4. Concepts covered include: naturally occurring greenhouse gases; natural variations in climate; industrialisation and population growth; use of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions.

The torrential rains of India's celebrated summer monsoon could soon be a thing of the past amid fears climate change is replacing the wet season with drought.

The Met Office has bought four supercomputers from IBM to help it tackle climate change. The power-hungry supercomputer produces 12,000 tonnes of...

James Murray, BusinessGreen , Friday 28 August 2009 at 12:38:00 With 100 days to go until Copenhagen, new report slams official climate change costs estimates as woefully inaccurate The global cost of adapting to global warming will be many times greater than the official estimates currently being considered by international negotiators preparing to take part in the UN's Copenhagen talks. That ...

The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to force a public hearing into the scientific evidence for man-made climate change in an effort to stave off legislation that may harm its business interests.

Climate change activists ban police from camp

With 100 days to go until the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference , Ian Sullivan is at the Sea Life Aquarium in London reporting on an unusual event organised by Oxfam.

Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen , Friday 28 August 2009 at 10:11:00 Laws to be drafted to provide legal basis for emissions reduction strategy In a what promises to be a landmark move in the global fight to tackle global warming, China's legislators yesterday approved a formal resolution on climate change designed to accelerate the nation's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The ...