MAD Climate – Making a Difference

UK-funded research shows climate change has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya Rising temperatures on the slopes of Mount Kenya have put an extra 4 million people at risk of malaria, research funded by the UK government warned today. Climate change has raised average temperatures in the Central Highlands region of Kenya, allowing the disease to creep ...

I liked Ben Chu's article on why climate naysayers are failing (24 December). What many people tend to forget is that the warming story is not simply based on the air-temperature records of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment announces an interactive e-learning course on climate change on the theme: ‘Global Warming in a Still Unequal World’. Registration opens from January 2, 2010.

Rising temperatures on the slopes of Mount Kenya have put an extra four million people at risk of malaria, research funded by the UK Government has warned.

Rising temperatures on the slopes of Mount Kenya have put an extra four million people at risk of malaria, research funded by the UK Government warned today.

Source: IPS With the chance for a global climate change treaty on hold, a tax on greenhouse gases could be an effective alternative for discouraging the activities that create emissions, say economists and environmentalists.

John Gummer is to leave the House of Commons to lead a new international campaign to make Britain, the US and other developed countries take more responsibility for fighting climate change.

Scouts from Carlisle have warned the Government that the Copenhagen climate summit’s effects will have a major impact on young people.

Munich Re, the German reinsurer, yesterday warned that a lack of big earthquakes and hurricanes this year should not lead to complacency about climate change.

Source: IPS As what was supposed to be a breakthrough year for action on climate change comes to a close, one indicator of the disappointment surrounding an anti-climactic outcome in Copenhagen and stalled U.S. Senate legislation can be seen on the European Climate Exchange.