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Climate Change - the problems

Last edited 14 November 2006 at 12:57pm

A melt lakes on the Greenland ice sheet

The world is warming up. As we burn up the planet’s coal, oil and gas reserves, and cut down its remaining forests, greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere. The delicate balance of atmospheric gases that sustains life is thickening, trapping more and more heat and irreversibly changing our world.

Article tagged as: climate change, environmental issues, feedback mechanisms, impacts, nuclear power, politics, science

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2005 hottest year on record, says NASA

Last edited 25 January 2006 at 9:00am
25 January, 2006

NASA researchers have calculated that 2005 was the hottest year on record.

Last year produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The previous hottest year was 1998.

Article tagged as: climate change, impacts, NASA, press releases, science, worldwide

NanoJury UK - reflections and implications of recommendations

Last edited 18 November 2005 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
18 November, 2005

Summary

Dr Douglas Parr of Greenpeace shares his reflections on Nanojury UK, the first attempt to give ordinary members of the UK public a voice in relation to the development of this very wide-ranging technology.

Dr Parr argues that the implications of the findings of Nanojury reach far into not just science and innovation policy in UK, but also the political model of economic resource deployment which underpins the technology commercialisation process.

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Article tagged as: nanojury, nanotechnology, reports, science

Report on the presentation of the provisional recommendations of NanoJury UK

Last edited 18 November 2005 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
18 November, 2006

Summary

This report focuses on the event at which jurors from the West Yorkshire Community Jury reported their preliminary recommendations for discussion by a range of groups representing a broad range of interests in the UK and beyond.

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Nano Jury UK provisional recommendations

Last edited 14 October 2005 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
14 October, 2005

Summary

An independent citizen's jury has delivered its verdict on nanotechnology after five weeks debating the emerging technology. NanoJury UK has called for greater public say and increased clarity as well as more emphasis on health, equity and environmental protection when developing the technology.

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Nanotech jury to deliver 'verdict'

Last edited 15 September 2005 at 8:00am
15 September, 2005

A citizen's jury on nanotechnology, NanoJury UK, is to deliver its verdict after five weeks debating the new technology. Nanotechnologies are predicted to generate sales of $1 trillion by 2015, and could affect every sphere of our lives including healthcare, computers, consumer gadgets, energy, defence and food.

When: 10.00am Wednesday 21st September

Press Room, Guardian Media Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1

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Arctic glacier caught speeding

Posted by bex — 21 July 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

A glacier in Greenland


Independent scientists on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have made a dramatic discovery about the Greenland glacier Kangerdlugssuaq. Preliminary findings show that the speed of the glacier has increased beyond all expectations and it is now travelling at three times the speed it was in 1988 making it one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world.

Article tagged as: arctic sunrise, climate change, glaciers, greenland, impacts, kangerdlugssuaq, science, ships

Dialogue no replacement for action on climate change

Posted by bex — 8 July 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Extreme weather events are on the increase


The G8 summit in Gleneagles has closed missing a major opportunity to tackle dangerous climate change.

The communiqué states: "Climate change is a serious long term challenge that has the potential to affect every part of the globe," and that they will act with "resolve and urgency" to reduce emissions.

Article tagged as: africa, climate change, g8, gleneagles, impacts, science, tony blair

Nano Jury puts technology under the microscope

Last edited 19 May 2005 at 8:00am
Citizens' jury to debate nanotechnologies


An unprecedented partnership is to seek out informed public views on nanotechnology, giving the public the opportunity to become part of the debate as to how this emerging and potentially revolutionary technology should develop.

A five-week long citizens' jury on nanotechnologies, NanoJury UK, will begin in Halifax, Yorkshire on 25th May, sponsored by the IRC in Nanotechnology University of Cambridge [1], Greenpeace UK, the Guardian and the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre of the University of Newcastle.

Article tagged as: debate, nanojury, nanotechnology, science