The Marshallese foreign minister writes. (Don't bother reading the comments...)

The FT explains that we are, in fact, doomed.

A terrifying look at how we are changing the world.

The view from Costa Rica.

*gulp*

...that it is a big problem which is getting bigger.

6 of the 20 hottest days ever recorded in Oz have been in *2013*.

If you were born after March 1985 you have *never* lived through a colder than average month.

Heh.

May 2012 was "the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average". Read.

Headline not quite fair: proposal is to ban scientists from considering *accelerated* sea rise as a possibility. "Rates of sea-level rise may be extrapolated linearly to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of accelerated rates of sea-level rise."

#fb Pacific islands threatened by climate change.

Farts and climate change.

Crucial meeting happening in the building next to my office.

a projection from 1981 for rising temperatures in a major science journal, at a time that the temperature rise was not yet obvious in the observations, has been found to agree well with the observations since then, underestimating the observed trend by about 30%

A conspiracy promoting lies about something as vast, global and pervasive as the climate would have to be as vast, global and pervasive as the climate itself.

A couple of the report conclusions are worth pointing out: We found no basis to conclude that the [Climategate] emails were evidence of research misconduct or that they pointed to such evidence. That’s clear enough, I think. They also said: There is no specific evidence that [Mann] falsified or fabricated any data and no evidence that his actions …

This is awful news.

A British diplomat visits Majuro.

My colleague Dean reports from the climate change talks

Western countries' emissions down heavily due to economic crisis, China and India make up the gap though.

in which Charlemagne says No Comment at some length

The Gulf Stream has gone west; will it come back?

A short pdf from UNHCR

Oxfam on the EU and climate change

UN publishes negotiating text for climate change treaty negotiations