Greenpeace: “Polluters are in charge at Rio+20” | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

With negotiations faltering the Brazilian Government produced a compromise document that is set to form the backbone of discussions by heads of states and ministers at the high-level segment, beginning on Wednesday.

“What we have on the table here is an abject failure of responsibilities from governments. If this text gets adopted we are facing a future of pollution plunder and destruction,” Daniel Mittler, Political Director at Greenpeace International told RTCC.

“This is a tragic document, an insult to our children and an abject failure of our governments.”

Arctic plant growth 'could speed up global warming' | smh.com.au

''We suggest that, as more productive forest communities colonise tundra, the decomposition of the large [carbon] stocks in tundra soils could be stimulated,'' the researchers wrote in a paper to be released today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

''Thus, counter-intuitively, increased plant growth in the European Arctic could result in [carbon] being released to the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.''

A team of eight researchers from Scotland and England braved frigid conditions in northern Sweden to gather and measure soil samples from patches of forest and tundra.

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Perhaps We Shouldn't Listen To The Climate Scientists About Climate Change - Forbes

For it would appear that some climate scientists are remarkably ignorant about what is going on. And this rather worries me: the idea that people who quite literally do not know what they are talking about making government policy is scary.

I present as my example this from Sir David King, until recently the chief scientific advisor to the UK Government...