Jan Veizer: Climate change science isn't settled | The Australian

MANY people think the science of climate change is settled. It isn't. And the issue is not whether there has been an overall warming during the past century. There has, although it was not uniform and none was observed during the past decade. The geologic record provides us with abundant evidence for such perpetual natural climate variability, from icecaps reaching almost to the equator to none at all, even at the poles.

Britain aims to cut emissions 34% | smh.com.au

BRITAIN has announced it will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly seven times the amount Australia has committed to.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has promised the Government will cut emissions by 34 per cent by 2020 and said it would go even further if other countries agreed to take action during international negotiations this year.

US under pressure to specify its climate change plan; Lisa Jackson takes fossil-fueled trip to Sicily

The ministers' comments came as the head of the United States' Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, arrived in Sicily to hold talks with fellow G8 officials.

UK emissions [fantasy] shames Australia, say Greens | watoday.com.au

A BRITISH commitment to substantially boost its greenhouse emissions target for 2020 makes a mockery of the Federal Government's claims to global leadership on climate change, the Greens say.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday that Britain would cut emissions 34 per cent below 1990 by 2020, regardless of whether a new international climate treaty was signed this year. When recalibrated to the same baseline, the Australian Government's minimum proposed 2020 target equates to a 4 per cent cut.

Greens climate change spokeswoman Christine Milne said the British commitment did not go as far as she would have liked, but gave it "tremendous credibility on the global stage".