CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS - MAY 04


UK CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS ROSE IN 2003
25 March - New Government figures indicate a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2003. The increase was caused by a rise in energy consumption and a return to coal burning.
 http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/uk_carbon_dioxide_emission_30032004.html


UK FAILS TO SET HIGH EMISSIONS CAPS FOR INDUSTRY - CLIMATE TARGETS DISAPPEAR INTO THE DISTANCE
6 May - The Government's climate policy is in disarray today after its plans to impose limits on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide were watered down. The Government has limited options to get back on track.  http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/industry_gets_easy_ride_as_06052004.html


GOVERNMENT RENEGES ON CO2 TARGET
7 May - Greenpeace accused Tony Blair of retreating on his commitment to fight global warming after the government scaled back its plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 16.3%.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1211251,00.html


CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE MASS EXTINCTION BY 2050
8 Jan - One in ten animal and plant species will be extinct by 2050 as the result of climate change from the C02 levels that are in the atmosphere now. Many more are at threat unless we move swiftly to a carbon-free econonmy.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1118281,00.html


GLOBAL WARMING WILL PLUNGE BRITAIN INTO NEW ICE AGE 'WITHIN DECADES'
25 Jan -  http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=484490


THE PENTAGON TELLS BUSH: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY US
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153530,00.html
Key findings of the Pentagon Report (Observer, 22/2/4)
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1153547,00.html


KYOTO MARCH THIS SATURDAY
Campaign Against Climate Change (see below)


GOVERNMENT MUST LISTEN TO TOP SCIENTIST'S WARNING ON AVIATION
30 Mar - The Government must heed its chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, and scrap plans to allow a massive expansion in air travel. Sir David has previously warned that climate change was a bigger threat to the planet than terrorism.  http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/government_must_listen_to_30032004.html


GREAT NEW BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE
High Tide: News from a Warming World by Mark Lynas
www.marklynas.org


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ANNUAL KYOTO MARCH - THIS SATURDAY 15TH MAY
Time to make a stand for the environment
Before Bush takes us the way the dinosaurs went!
(from  http://www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net)

The Kyoto March is an annual event that allows people to get together and onto the streets to sound the alarm about the accelerating deterioration of the global environment and in particular the huge threat posed by the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. It is a chance to make a stand against those with the greatest power who are most to blame: currently George W Bush and his backers in the US fossil fuel industry, who sabotaged the world's efforts to deal with global climate change by dumping the Kyoto treaty now 3 years ago. Our event marks the anniversary of that greatest of environmental crimes.

Our event includes :

'Long March' from ExxonMobil (Esso) HQ, Leatherhead, 20 miles to the US embassy, starts 7.00 am (or join en route). ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company and Bush's principal anti-Kyoto corporate backer: it has been waging a cynical war of disinformation on climate change, for many years. See www.stopesso.com.

RALLY AT IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 3.30
pm for the main march (last leg of Long March) through central London to the US embassy.

'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy from 5.30 pm.
The dinosaurs in the White House and the US fossil fuel industry, with very large bank accounts but very small brains, are taking all of us the way of the dinosaurs. Join us for some MASS-EXTINCTION fun !

Speakers, so far, will include Michael Meacher MP (Environment Minister 1997-2003), Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party), Norman Baker MP (Lib-Dem Shadow Environment Secretary) and Stephen Tindale (Director, Greenpeace UK).

Route of Long March : From Esso HQ, Ermyn Way, off the A24 just North of Leatherhead (for map to find it click here), follows the A24 , diverging from this for Ewell centre and Wimbledon (Dorset Rd, Hartfield Rd., to centre - Broadway, Merton High St to regain A24); then from Clapham Common via the A3, to Kennington Road, via which to the Imp War Museum.

Timetable : 7.00 am, leave Esso HQ; 8.oo am Epsom Town centre; 10.20 am morden Tube; 11.15-12. 15 Wimbledon Centre (Safeways,Broadway); 2.25 pm Clapham Common Tube; 3.30 pm Rally at Imperial War Museum; 5.30 pm US embassy, Grosvenor Square. For full (printable) timetable click here .

Go the whole way, join in along the way, or at the Rally at the Imperial War Museum for the march through central London......or come to the 'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy.

Anyone joining us for the whole march who would like overnight accomodation with transport to starting point in the morning please contact us (contacts below).

Why not do the march (or some of it) and raise some badly needed money for CCC too ? For the Kyoto March Sponsorship Form click here.

Dress code theme : Dinosaurs, extinct species, threatened species, Oil/Coal industry Dinosaurs, Bush/Cheney Dinosaurs, Uncle Sam Dinosaurs, or of course just identify yourself as a member of a threatened species ! Plus anything that shows Bush, Uncle Sam, Exxon fat-cats etc ...as climate / environmental villains.

For more info contact : email  info@campaigncc.org or phone 0208 8553327 or 07903 316 331

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS DEMO TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE