...... One of Europe's most influential government-owned investors in the energy industry has hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects. This is despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments. Riccardo Puliti, energy chief at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, warned against an "ideological" policy on carbon intensity in ......

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...... "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the science literature" was published in the Environmental Research Letters journal on Thursday. It looked at 12 000 academic papers that talked about climate change and were published between 1991 and 2011. The majority did not take a stance on what was driving climate change, but 4 000 did. Of these, 97.1% said that humans, ......

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...... plants," she said. That decision is expected later this year. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, but generally cheaper to run than their coal-fired cousins. They also emit no greenhouse gasses. Government sees nuclear-generated power as an integral part of the national energy mix. Its new nuclear build programme, if it gets the go-ahead, will add an additional 9600MW to the ......

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...... The world has passed a critical threshold in the struggle to keep greenhouse gas emissions at a level that humans can survive. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – the most widespread gas – has been at the centre of climate negotiations for the last two decades. These have focused on reducing the level of carbon pumped into the atmosphere, mainly by the burning of ......

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...... the next two to three decades was also a motivating factor. "It means this is the part of the world that is going to offer growth potential ... that is going to offer new answers on climate change, on economic development, on reducing inequality and poverty." Stamping out conflict to boost development Meanwhile, President Jacob Zuma on Thursday said that African countries are trying to ......

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...... include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed. The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapour in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of ......

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...... them out in the sunshine to dry. The annual harvest at Groenkol Rooibos tea estate in the Western Cape helps quench the world's growing thirst for rooibos tea, but farmers fear that climate change could destroy the delicate eco-system that their crop depends on. Annual exports of rooibos have quadrupled in the last 13 years. The tea is popular for its perceived health benefits as well as its ......

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...... The Wall Street Journal has received a dressing down from a large group of leading scientists for promoting retrograde and out-of-date views on climate change. In an opinion piece run by the Journal on Wednesday, nearly 40 scientists, including acknowledged climate change experts, take on the paper for publishing an article disputing the evidence on global warming. The offending article, No ......

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...... and poverty, despite reports of food shortages and rations. In a glowing written tribute to the late North Korean leader the youth movement also credited Kim Jong-il with combatting climate change by inventing an air steriliser, "to curb emissions and related hazards from the climate". Kim Jong-il died on December 17 of a heart attack brought about by overwork and stress, according to the ......

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...... Scientists and environmental groups warned that urgent action was still needed to rescue the world from climate change, despite the deal sealed on Sunday morning in Durban after two weeks of talks. Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said: "This empty shell of a plan leaves the planet hurtling towards catastrophic climate change. If Durban is to be a historic stepping ......

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