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  • Outlook
    BBC World Service, 10 Feb 10 12:05

    Green Kibbutz Outlook's Judy Herman visits a kibbutz in the Arava Desert, where teenagers from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories are learning together about the fight against climate change. "Combat Barbie" Lance...

  • Protecting the Past
    BBC Radio 4, 15 Feb 10 21:00

    Alice Roberts investigates the threats posed to our great historic sites by climate change. Is there anything we can do to save the most vulnerable properties from extreme weather and regular flooding? All...

  • Keep on Trucking
    BBC Radio 4, 11 Feb 10 13:30

    While aviation is often seen as the climate change villain, the transport of freight by road and ship is often ignored. Shipping is a far bigger polluter and seems unlikely to benefit from the investment in technology which airlines have planned.

Blogs

  • 2010 to be a very warm year overall
    05 Feb 10 | Andrew Neil - Andrew Neil's blog

    Also Dr Spencer is a leading and well-qualified climate change sceptic, so his findings cannot be easily dismissed by the sceptic camp. This is what he says: "The...

  • Thursday 4 February 2010
    04 Feb 10 | Verity Murphy - Newsnight: From the web team

    We have a film from Sydney correspondent Nick Bryant on climate change scepticism in Australia. We are also looking at the Bank of England decision to halt quantitative easing, the policy designed to stimulate growth in the economy, and privacy laws versus press freedom.

  • Tuesday 2 February 2010
    02 Feb 10 | Verity Murphy - Newsnight: From the web team

    Here is what we are lining up for tonight's programme: Susan Watts is looking into the growing pressure on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) after recent claims that some leading scientists exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers.

  • Out and in
    01 Feb 10 | Brian Taylor - Blether with Brian

    opportunity to combine acting as director with lecturing on climate change, conflict resolution and nuclear disarmament. Rather than looking to the future, some observers may be inclined to cast their minds back a couple of years when the married MP was obliged to apologise after a newspaper...

  • Judgement day for public trust in science
    29 Jan 10 | Susan Watts - Newsnight: Susan Watts

    The case raises far-reaching questions over how science is conducted, adding to those already swirling around over climate change research. Science, how it is carried out and how it is reported, is under scrutiny.

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BBC iPlayer

  • Outlook - 09/02/2010
    10 Feb 10

    Green Kibbutz Outlook's Judy Herman visits a kibbutz in the Arava Desert, where teenagers from Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories are learning together about the fight against climate change. "Combat Barbie" Lance...

  • One Planet - 04/02/2010
    10 Feb 10

    That's the sound of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reputation taking a battering. It's being a torrid few months for an organisation that was established to lead the scientific research on climate change.

  • Politics UK - 05/02/2010
    10 Feb 10

    A review of Britain's defence capability was announced this week lookng at ways of countering threats ranging from terrorsim to cyberspace and climate change. What shape should the armed forces take and has the Tony Blair doctrine of liberal intervention been so discredited by the war in Iraq that...

  • Science In Action - 05/02/2010
    10 Feb 10

    This week that the IPCC – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - has already come under fire for the quality of some of its peer reviewed research over the rate of melting glaciers. Another claim has been made by scientists working with stem cells, who say that publication of their...

  • Costing the Earth - Keep on Trucking
    Keep on Trucking, 10 Feb 10

    While aviation is often seen as the climate change villain, the transport of freight by road and ship is often ignored. Shipping is a far bigger polluter and seems unlikely to benefit from the investment in technology which airlines have planned.

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News

  • Bill Nighy backs calls for 'Robin Hood' tax on banks
    10 Feb 10

    05% could raise billions of pounds which could be used to plug the hole in the public sector finances, protect public services and jobs, fight poverty at home and abroad, and help protect against future climate change. Director Richard Curtis has made a short film starring Bill Nighy to publicise...

  • Banks tax 'would raise billions'
    10 Feb 10 | Business

    Supporters say money raised could help protect public services and jobs, fight poverty and tackle climate change. The campaign is backed by almost 50 groups, including the TUC and Oxfam, as well as big names like actor Bill Nighy and film maker Richard Curtis.

  • Time to think small on climate change
    09 Feb 10 | Science & Environment

    While these are a vital component of any government's climate change strategy, they will not be sufficient on their own to meet stringent carbon reduction commitments. To do this, it will be important to mobilise all parts of society, both business and one of the most powerful agents of change:...

  • Euro MPs back new EU Commission
    09 Feb 10 | Europe

    in areas such as economic and social policy, climate change and foreign policy. The Socialist (S&D...

  • Celebrities join climate campaign
    09 Feb 10 | London

    A number of celebrities have been recruited to help promote plans to combat climate change in London. The city's mayor Boris Johnson has signed up famous people including Vivienne Westwood, Rory Bremner and Jane Horrocks to back the move.

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Knowledge

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    Climate change Climate change is the variation in the average global or regional climate as measured by yardsticks such as average temperature and rainfall. This variation is caused by both natural processes and human activity.

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  • Climate Change - Bloom - Switching to a diesel car
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    Burning fossil fuels releases CO 2 into the atmosphere, hence the anxiety that extensive use of these fuels is causing climate change. Carbon footprint A person's carbon footprint (or...

  • Climate Change - Bloom - Visiting Europe by train instead of plane
    Climate Change

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  • Climate Change - Bloom - Installing a biomass boiler
    Climate Change

    Climate change Climate change is the variation in the average global or regional climate as measured by yardsticks such as average temperature and rainfall. This variation is caused by both natural processes and human activity.

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