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Anesthetising Our Way of Life "we're well on the way to sharing a similar fate as the 14th century Easter (or 'Rapanui') Islanders" Peter Lloyd interview RNZ 27Feb06 zefamedia report + link * * * * *
A Rocha "Christian nature conservation org.. projects.. frequently cross-cultural in character, & share a community emphasis, with a focus on science & research, practical conservation & environmental education" UK global + Climate Stewards "For Tomorrow Today" + Climate Community & Biodiversity Alliance "partnership of research institutions, corporations & environmental groups" CCBA
Biofuel solar etc - Peak Oil link page + Energy Library
Boston, Professor Jonathon VUW Climate Change & Governance Conference 28-29Mar06 Te Papa & presentations; 'acidification of oceans risk' etc re Stern on RNZ, & 'too little too late' govt policy 14Dec06; ..
CarboNZeroCertTM "a Certification Programme for Minimising Climate Change Impacts ..a simple way for companies to mitigate the global warming effect of the burning of fossil fuels" Landcare Research + "Trade Me & the environment"
Carshare.co.nz "free resource for car-sharing and car-pooling within NZ" + Eco-Friendly Transport Week "to encourage people to walk, bike, bus or car-share" 6-10Nov06
Celsias.com "helps people discuss Climate change, then create & manage projects to reduce global warming.. Seven modest founders.. NZ" Celsias Foundation + Vicky Buck on biofuels + links * * *
NZ Climate InfoHelp Weather link page section + Water page
Chch choc-maker goes green "persuading Americans to pay for climate change by buying its bars.. donates US55c from each bar to American carbon offset operator TerraPass to pay for 60kg of carbon offsets" 7Jun08
Climaction "System Change Not CLimate Change: OUR TWO DEMANDS - (a) Beyond Kyoto - 90% reduction in greenhouse gas (b) Frequent and fare free public transport now" climaction.org.nz & Climaction myspace.com ***
Climate Change Ministry for the Environment MFE NZ Climate Change Office + 4million.org.nz/climatechange + Projects to reduce emissions PRE
Climate change means changing practices ECanReport Feb07 localeye + Step Up Canterbury "Expo & Auction" World Environment Day 5Jun08 360 Degree Events Ltd * * * *
Climate-change legislation wins solid backing from all parties in Parliament "phased in over five years.. up to 200 big emitters" nzherald.co.nz 21Sep07 & Fossil-fuel cost crunch to hit in 2010 NZ Herald Climate change news
Climate change: New Zealand's hot topic clip tv3.co.nz 31Jul07
NZ Climate Change Relay Oct07-08 + KlimaStaffel German Climate Relay Jun04 ClimateAlliance.org Eurocities&IndigRainforestPpls + Green Torch Relay 07 Lewis & Clark College US & Focus The Nation global warming solutions * * * * *
Communities for Climate Protection CCP-NZ & International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives ICLEI.org Global "Local Governments for Sustainability" + ClimateMayors.com Australasian Mayors Council for Climate Protection
Cutting Edge Technology Provides New Info On Climate Change "carbon budgets.. greenhouse gas accounting" Landcare Research MediaR 1Aug07
Cycling: Sunday Afternoon Cycling Church PROSACC Ilam Baptist Church Chch + Utility Cyclism "how to encourage an increase in the numbers of cyclists" Alan Preston blog & Urban Bicycles "resource.. Utility cycling is transport" + Bikely.com "helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes" cUK+
Environmental Defence Society climate change policies Ackd + links
Frazer Lindstrom Ltd "NZ's leading independent climate change & energy sector consultancy" Ackd
Fuel prices delay emissions scheme Windflow opening TVNZ 6May08
Flexible Land Use Alliance "represents some of NZ's largest exporters.. other key players.. primary industries.. to ensure continued land use flexibility in the event of the introduction of.. NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)" & New Land Use Alliance Focussed on Planting Eroding Land MR 28Feb08 scoop + infonews links + Greens support for forestry offset conditional Jeanette Fitzsimons MP 19Mar08 + Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium PGGRC "livestock farmers.. knowledge & tools to mitigate ghg emissions" & Greenhouse Gas & Animal Agriculture conference
Future Focus "Signposts to Success for NZ's Primary Industries" strategic foresight project MAF 07
Greenhouse Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference GGAA2007 "developing livestock systems for greenhouse & productivity benefits" 26-29Nov07 Chch
Greenhouse Policy Coalition "to achieve a climate change policy framework that secures for NZ a growing, competitive, profitable & sustainable business sector"
Green Party Climate Change & Air Quality greens.org.nz + Turn Down the Heat doc/pdf + Action, not warnings, needed now on carbon emissions "regulations now to cover the immediate requirement for action, and then get cracking on putting a pricing system for carbon emissions in place" 12Feb07 & Sustainability cannot happen without Green economics "It is Government's role to ensure business can be profitable by being sustainable" 11Feb07 + Climate For Change "political implications of the current 'environment' & delves into various alternative political theories to those currently being pursued" talk.mov PlaNet 11Jun07
Greenpeace stop climate change + bethechange.org.nz + Yes2Wind + links
HillaryInstitute.org.nz Hillary Symposium on Climate Change 5Jun08 Christchurch Art Gallery
The Lincoln Resource "land-based research.. application in business.. networking & collaboration, cluster" not climate + links
Prue Taylor NZ Centre for Environmental Law UniAckd bk An Ecological Approach to International Law & essay The Significance of the Earth Charter in International Law / ECANZ Earth Charter / World Ocean Network TOPS
Reasons to be Optimistic on APEC Climate Talks NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development scoop 13Jul07
Renewable Energy NZ RENZ Foundation 05 charitable trust "To bring together private, public, educational & scientific interests towards the common goal of a sustainable, renewable, clean energy economy.. support research into the development & commercialisation of technologies associated with all aspects of the Hydrogen Economy"
Save Happy Valley "campaign.. to try to slow climate change" Buller & Walk the Walk
Sustainable Energy Forum "to promote the transition" sef.org.nz + links
Transition Towns NZ Aotearoa "communities..respond to the twin challenges of climate change & peak oil" + UK + TransitionCulture.org blog
WA$TED! "Waging War on Waste ..new environmental make-over series that proves you don't have to be extreme to be green.. Starting 20th Feb Tuesday 8PM TV3" fumes.tv "creative story telling brand driven by Carthew Neal" + carboNZero

Global
Ancient flood spurred farming: Study "could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark.. helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers.. collapse of the North American ice sheet.. raised global sea levels by as much as 1.4 metres" tvnz 18Nov07 + Past climate changes led to famine, war "some pretty serious conflicts.. by 2020" 22Nov07
AlGore.org "Draft Al Gore Movement.. campaign to bring visionary leadership to the White House" CivicActions +FOSS + DraftGore2008.org "grassroots, distributed campaign strategy.. [27Feb07] economy may be more vulnerable to a downturn than widely thought.. recently voiced concerns of former Fed Chief Allen Greenspan that the US economy may be heading into recession.. Everything used is open source, but Debian has the nicest art, so we're using it, because code is art" + DraftGore.com "Al Gore: The Conscience of the Democratic Party" + ElectGore2008.com etc.. ; AlGore.com "Tell Congress to act on global warming" Chair of Generation Investment Management / Alliance for Climate Protection by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors of An Inconvenient Truth "About the Film" 06 climatecrisis.net + LiveEarth.org "Save Our Selves (SOS).. the Concert for a climate In crisis.. 7/7/07" + Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army 1Apr08 + StopGlobalWarming.org & WeCanSolveIt.org * * * * * * * * * *
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment ACIA - Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Programme AMAP - Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy AEPS
Atlantic European Climate Group Dept Meteorology, Uni Reading UK *****
BBC News: Special Reports 2004 climate change + Deep ice tells long climate story "There's nothing that suggests that the Earth will take care of the increase in carbon dioxide.. will definitely give us a climate change that will be dangerous" 4Sep06 + Blair sees hope of climate deal "told the World Economic Forum a major breakthrough on long-term climate change goals could be close.. Davos.. possible because of a 'quantum shift' in the attitude of the US" 27Jan07 + Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson launches $25m climate bid "offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.. Al Gore.. Earth Challenge prize.. looking for a method that will remove at least one billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere" 9Feb07 + 17May07 Polar / Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2' "decline of Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon 'sink'.. means that atmospheric CO2 levels may be higher in future than predicted" / "North Atlantic.. uptake halved between the mid-90s & 2000 to 2005" 20Oct07 + Ice withdrawal 'shatters record' 21Sep07 + Eco-ruin 'felled early society' "Bronze Age Argaric people in south-east Spain - Europe's driest area" 15Nov07 + IPCC Experts warn of 'abrupt' warming 17Nov07 + 'Unexpected growth' in CO2 found "35% faster than expected since 2000" 23Oct07 & 'Tropics expand' as world warms "possible impacts on the global food supply" 4Dec07
Carbon Balanced "reduce damage to.. environment" World Land Trust UK
Carbon Cycle Science Program USGCRP
carbonsense "making sense of climate change" carbon zero community UK
CarbonTradeWatch.org Transnational Institute Amstdm + bk "The Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins" etc
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation & Power Development & Dialogue No48 Sep06 "carbon trading tends towards a redistribution of wealth from poor to rich, while the impossibility of measuring what is being traded & the complexity of the new carbon markets makes them a likely target for fraud" Transnational Institute, Netherlands
Cheat Neutral "Helping you because you can't help yourself" UK
China adapts to climate change at the local level SciDev.Net 28Mar07
Climate Ark "The Original Biocentric Climate Science, Policy & Advocacy Search Engine - Climate Change & Global Warming Portal" of Ecological Internet "Achieving Environmental Conservation, Byte by Byte.. Complete Source for Environmental Sustainability News, Expert Analysis, Information Retrieval Tools, Portal Services & Web Site Consulting" & EcoEarth.Info "Environment Portal & Search Engine - Empowering the.. Movement" etc
Climate & Capitalism "EcoSocialism or Barbarism: There is no third way" blogspot + "The Obscenity of Carbon Trading" & "The Dialectics of Climate Change" etc

Climate Change / research on the web BBC.co.uk Polar ice sheets show net loss 9Mar06 & Sea rise could be 'catastrophic' "estimate peak rates of sea level rise exceeding 1m per century" 23Mar06 & Greenland melt 'speeding up' 11Aug06 & Britons injured by Arctic glacier Norway 9Aug07 + Glacier surfing Alaska sikunews.com 19Aug07 + Arctic ice 'is at tipping point' 28Aug08 + Arctic meltdown 'past tipping point' "Nasa ice scientist Jay Zwally said that within 'five to less than 10 years', the Arctic could be free of sea ice in summer" nzherald.co.nz 01Sep08 & Urgent call for Rudd and Clarke on climate change action "Community leaders from the Pacific are urging.. more proactive actions.. in the Pacific.. Damien Lawson, Friends of the Earth Australia said: 'Low lying island nations such as Tuvalu and Kiribati are already facing rising seas, storms and king tides that are having a terrible impact. We could see sea level rises of several metres this century'" 19Aug08 & Warming brews forces to be reckoned with "destructive intensity of the winds from tropical storms & hurricanes has increased significantly in the past 30 years" 06Sep08 * * * * *
Climate Change environment.guardian.co.uk + Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion 12Jun08 Mark Lynas bk 'Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet' review Six steps to hell 23Apr07
Climate Change Environment Independent Online UK & Climate change blamed as Superior shrinks 20Jun07
Climate Change NSW Government .au + ClimateChangeLatest.com sales
Climate change organizations & defunct CCOs Global Climate Coalition etc + Large Cities Climate Leadership Group wikipedia * * * * *
Climate Forecasting Group "To improve understanding of Australian climate.. change.. develop systems to predict climate on scales beyond the medium range" Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Aus
The Climate Group 04 independent npo "dedicated to advancing business & government leadership on climate change.. based in the UK.. USA & Australia.. operate internationally ..open to all companies, NGOs & local, regional & national governments committed to adopting a leadership agenda on climate protection & to reducing greenhouse gas emissions" Virgin etc & wikipedia "coalition.. 8% of world emissions"
ClimatePrediction.net distributed "experiment to try & produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century" s/w Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC
ClimateWire "Climate Change News & Info Service"
Clinton Climate Initiative CCI Bill "Clinton Foundation project dedicated to making a difference in the fight against climate change in practical & measurable ways, initiating programs that directly result in substantial reductions in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions" & 22 Cities Join Clinton Anti-Warming Effort washingtonpost.com 2Aug06 + Clinton Global Initiative re energy
Convention on Biological Diversity CBD UNEP biodiv.org
Cracking ice fuels greenhouse fears "28.5sq km chunk of ice haemorrhaging off.. in northern Greenland.. massive Petermann glacier to predict major portions of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier will disintegrate within the year, raising sea levels further" nzherald.co.nz Climate Change 24Aug08 & Arctic sea ice meltdown speeds up "unprecedented rate.. leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013" 13Aug08
Earth Day Network "environmental education & civic participation" 22Apr + Energy Saving Day E-Day "did not succeed in cutting the UK's electricity demand.. Leave It Off" 27-28Feb08 & BBC report + eDay.org.nz Electronic e-waste recycling event
EcoBridge "The unborn children of tomorrow will bear the heavy burden of our indifference" CA
Efforts to address global climate crisis reach a pivotal moment "Two meetings.. key conference.. Bali.. in December" taipeitimes.com 6Sep07
Gaia & accelerating climate change Science Show abc.net.au 20Jan07
Global Change Impacts on Mangrove Ecosystems "may invade salt marsh.. CO2 increased about 21% from 280 ppm in preindustrial times to approx 370 ppm today.. predicted by some models to double within the next century" US Geological Survey USGS Fact Sheet 04
Global Climate Campaign.org
Global Climate Institute GCI "think-tank.. focuses on policy solutions addressing climate change" UK Contraction-&-Convergence C&C video etc Aubrey Meyer
Global food crisis looms as climate change & population growth strip fertile land "'Ignorance, need & greed' depleting soil. Experts warn competition will lead to conflict" guardian.co.uk 31Aug07
Global Warming "a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition.. National Consumer Coalition.. market economy benefits" globalwarming.org US??
Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers geocraft.com
Green Power on the march: Thousands unite to rally against global warming independent.co.uk 04Nov06 + Stop Climate Chaos coalition
Greenhouse Effect & Humus store CO2 in ground
Greenhouse Gas Online "a freely available & up to date resource dedicated to greenhouse gas news & scientific publications" UK
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning George Monbiot bk turnuptheheat.org UK + EnergyBulletin review & monbiot.com blog * * * *
Huge sea level rises are coming - unless we act now "the palaeoclimate record contains numerous examples of ice sheets yielding sea level rises of several metres per century when forcings were smaller than that of the business-as-usual scenario. For example, about 14,000 years ago, sea level rose approximately 20 metres in 400 years, or about 1 metre every 20 years.. While a mere 2 per cent of the world's land is less than 10 metres above the mid-tide sea level, it is home to 10 per cent of the world's population" NewScientist.com 25Jul07
India's pragmatic approach to climate change SciDev.Net 31Aug06
Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry "Environmentally Safe Technologies ..chemical feed stocks must increasingly be obtained from renewable sources to reduce our dependence upon fossilized carbon & to protect the atmosphere" etc Prof Terry Collins NZ, Carnegie Mellon Uni PA + Greening Our Chemical World "We're not going to be able to run a high-tech.. sustainable civilization without green chemistry" popcitymedia.com 13Dec06
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC World Must Act On Global Warming "report draws on research by 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries & has taken six years.. 90% probability that human activities are to blame for most of the warming in the past 50 years. The previous report, in 2001, put the probability at 66%.. by 2100,. a 3.0 C (5.4 F) rise" xtramsn.co.nz 30Jan07
Japan, Czech Rep. OK greenhouse gas trade deal Yomiuri Shimbun 7Apr07
Minnesota Climatology Working Group "bring warm clothes!" US
New Scientist - Environment Special Report on Climate Change US * * * * *
Ocean Climate Group research Dept Earth Sciences Oceanography Goteborg Uni Sweden
Oceans & Climate Group "to provide fundamental understanding of the ocean's role in the earth's physical climate system & global biogeochemical cycles" Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton Uni NJ-US
Oslo Climate Group "to promote inter-institutional, interdisciplinary & inter-methodological climate research.. founded by a variety of sources from industry, through state to international research councils.. encourage and welcome collaborations" Norway
Phaeton's Reins: The human hand in climate change "we will have to learn how to control climate if we are to avoid his fate" Kerry Emanuel cover "With proposals about what to do now by Nicholas Stern; David G. Victor & Danny Cullenward; Kirsten Oleson & Chandra Shekhar Sinha; Jeffrey Logan, Joanna Lewis, & Michael B. Cummings; & Judy Layzer & William Moomaw" BostonReview.net Jan/Feb07
Polar Climate Group Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Uni NY + Climate Modeling & Diagnostics Group
RealClimate.org "Climate science from climate scientists ..commentary site.. for the interested public & journalists"
Rising Tide "grassroots network of independent groups & individuals committed to taking action & building a movement against climate change" UK + links * * * * *
Selected Climate change articles Socialist Worker UK
Shifting gear to save planet "International Energy Agency reckons.. $60 trillion to develop and deploy the technologies needed to halve carbon emissions from the energy sector (including transport) by the middle of the century.. to stabilise the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at 450 ppm" nzherald 12Jun08
Sustrans "The UK's leading sustainable transport charity" National Cycle Network Centre Bristol
Solar energy not enough for Australia PM J Howard 'world's largest solar plant & coal exporter, refusing Kyoto agreement' + China uses salt water to ease drought "It was not immediately clear how China, which is also desperately short of fuel, would power the energy-hungry desalination plants. More than 600 medium and large-sized cities in China were now suffering 'serious water shortages'" tvnz Oct06
SOS: Save Our Snow "Winter Athletes Take the Lead in Fighting Global Warming" emagazine Jan08 & Losing Winter "As Climate Change Takes Hold, Our Coldest Season is the First Casualty" etc * * * * *
Spirituality & EcologicalHope.org "consumer-oriented post-industrial society where the changes required to save humanity from disaster are particularly profound ..a project of the Center for New Creation" Margaret Swedish US
Stark warning over climate change "more serious impacts than previously believed" Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change report UK Meteorological Office & Earth is too crowded for Utopia "Rare indeed are the opportunities for religious leaders, philosophers, moralists, policymakers, politicians & indeed the 'global public' to debate the trajectory of the world's human population in the context of its stress on the Earth system, & to decide what might be done" bbc.co.uk Jan06 + Stark warning over climate change "The Earth is likely to experience a temperature rise of at least 3C.. Hadley forecasts hinge on stabilising the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) at a level of 550 parts per million in the atmosphere" Apr06
Stern Review Report: The Economics of Climate Change & Summary "the greatest market failure the world has seen" Sir Nicholas Stern UK Treasury former World Bank chief economist Oct06 release + Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned guardian.co.uk
Tim Flannery: "'We Are Now In The Danger Zone' Leading Australian Scientist on Climate Change & How To Save the Planet" democracynow.org 23Nov07 + bk "The Weather Makers: The History & Future Impact of Climate Change"
Tropical downpours worsening, say scientists "greater risks of flash floods.. As the tropics warm.. an increased frequency" Reuters stuff.co.nz 8Aug08
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research "researching sustainable responses to climate change" UK
US Global Change Research Program USGCRP
UVic Climate Modelling Group "Human beings with EMACS" UniVictoria British Columbia Can + Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society
Warmest Year in Over a Century: 2005 1998 2002 2003 2004 NASA + 2007 to be world's warmest year: scientists UK Meteorological Office Jan07

Space
Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn NewScientist 17Feb07
China 'eyeing satellite-killing ability by 2020' Yomiuri Shimbun 3Apr07
The Great Global Warming Swindle Channel4.com "film that challenges the commonly-held view that mankind is responsible for global warming & argues it may be all down to the effect of the sun's radiation" 07 + Against Nature 97
Making a mint out of the Moon "the US aimed to establish a long term lunar base by around 2020" 9Apr07 news.bbc.co.uk
No sun link to climate change "new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing climate change" bbc.co.uk 11Jul07 & Solar activity 'not the cause of global warming' independent.co.uk
Ray Tomes' Cycles in the Universe "cycles in everything.. ultimate formula for the universe.. Harmonics theory.. music theory.. art & writing" Ackd
Russia, China aim for Red Planet "Phobos Grunt" 29Mar07 news.bbc.co.uk

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