From ministers' tweets inside climate talks and cameraphone photos of climate activism as it happens, to tips on how to live a greener life and 140-character global warming news updates: who are the key people and organizations you should be following on Twitter if you're interested in climate change? We tried to narrow the list to 50, but we ended up with 60 must-follow accounts.
1. Oxfam
Updates from campaigners helping communities on the frontline of climate change.
2. Global Action Plan
Lots of interaction and climate campaigning from this UK-based environmental charity.
3. Greenpeace
Climate change news and campaigns, plus big business in the spotlight.
4. WWF_Climate
Climate-specific wildlife news and aggregation.
5. Friends of the Earth
Busy and popular feed with links to climate news reports, campaigns and topical comment.
Climate Change Politics on twitter1. Ed Miliband
Climate and energy secretary of the former Labour government used Twitter to broadcast from inside Copenhagen climate talks (his Lib Dem and Tory counterparts are not on Twitter).
2. Al Gore
Climate-centric tweets from the most-followed climate activist on Twitter.
3. Caroline Lucas
Not content with being the first green MP in England, Lucas also tweets her movements and chats frequently on her Twitter account.
4. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Links and news from the main Twitter account of the US government department responsible for the environment.
5. Department of Energy and Climate Change
News and a commendably high level of interaction from the UK government department responsible for climate change policy.
1. The Ecologist
News, aggregation and more from the Twitter account of the long-running UK magazine.
2. Digg Environment
A good barometer of what's gone viral on the climate blogosphere.
3. James Murray
Climate news and re-tweets for a business audience, from the editor of BusinessGreen.
4. Andy Rekvin
Thoughts and news from the New York Times columnist and environment author.
5. The Climate Desk
Independent journalistic collaboration on the impact of climate change.
1.Climate Progress
Thoughts and re-tweets on climate science and politics.
2. Grist
News and retweets by this US-centric green news and comment blog.
3. TreeHugger
Chat and thoughtful tweets from the grandaddy of the green blogosphere.
4. Julian L. Wong
Useful links for anyone interested in China and climate change.
5. Kate Sheppard
A prolific US blogger at Mother Jones who re-tweets interesting content on energy and climate change.
6. Phillip Lott
Blogger and nature photographer on climate and environment of Florida.
1. Eric Pooley
Author of The Climate War - tweets regularly about the fight in the US to keep climate change on the political agenda.
2. Bill McKibben
Commentary and an insight into the life of author and the founder of 350.org climate campaign.
3. Polly Higgins
Regular tweets from a campaigner and lawyer pushing for a new "ecocide" law that would declare the mass destruction of ecosystems a crime on a par with genocide.
4. Franny Armstrong
Newsy tweets and links from the founder of the 10:10 climate campaign and the director of The Age of Stupid climate documentary.
5. Kevin Grandia
Campaigner and blogger who puts climate change lobbying under the microscope.
1. Stop Climate Chaos
Campaign news and aggregation from the largest UK coalition tackling climate change issues.
2. 350.org
The lively account of Bill McKibben's global campaign to get CO2 down to 350 parts per million in the atmosphere.
3. 10:10
UK group campaigning to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. Lots of carbon-cutting tweets.
4. TckTckTck
Campaigning for a legally binding global climate deal, the Twitter account for this coalition is a good source of links on climate negotiations.
5. Plane Stupid
Opinion and links from the direct action campaign group against airport expansion.
6. One Climate
Retweets aplenty and news on climate change from this social networking site.
7. Climate Camp
Often the first stop for breaking news about direct action on climate change.
8. Energy Action coalition
Tweets from a coalition of youth groups campaigning on clean energy.
9. The Climate Group
Business-minded climate news and aggregation from this alliance of politicians and business leaders.
10. People and Planet
Actions and campaign news from the UK's largest student environment group.
1. The Daily Green
Green consumer tips and news from this long-running US-based site.
2. Energy Saving Trust
Useful impartial energy-saving advice from this non-profit, funded by government and the private sector.
3.Do the Green Thing
Fun videos and virals spurring action on climate change.
4. Good Guide
Advice on the products with the smallest environmental impact.
5.CTC
Tweets from the campaign group representing one of the lowest-carbon forms of transport: cycling.
1.Earth Institute
Climate debate and news from Columbia University's climate science department.
2. Katherine Hayhoe
Comment and interesting links from an atmospheric science professor at Texas Tech and author of A Climate for Change.
3. Tyndall Centre for Climate Research
Useful links from one of the world's leading climate research centres
Norwich-based group of climate scientists.
4. Met Office
News on climate change and weather from the UK Met Office.
5. Climate Central
Newsy aggregation of anything climate-related by a non-profit group of climate scientists.
6. Weather Underground
Real weather from real weather geeks.
7. Phillip's Natural World
This blog's twitter account.
8. National Snow and Ice Data Center (USA)
Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
9. Climate Prediction Center (USA)
Experimental service exploring twitter use to extend the reach of National Weather Service information.
1. Arcticsurvey
Arctic humour, climate science updates and multimedia aplenty from the Catlin Arctic survey in the North Pole.
2. UNEPandYou
Surprisingly lively and wide-ranging account featuring climate stories and official UN news.
3. worldresources
Expert Q&As, analysis and useful aggregation on climate change policy, economics and science.
4. Hopenhagen
Tweets aggregating a diverse international spread of climate content, from a campaign group born out of the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.
5. BraveNewClimate
Thoughts from a climate science professor on nuclear power, energy and climate politics in Australia.
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The result, combined with other factors, is that the relative sea level tends to drop locally and it tends to rise at a much higher pace than global mean (or eustatic) rate at some distance, perhaps thousands of miles distant.
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Rio de Janeiro is a troubled city and a reeling Olympic host, but it will always have beautiful Guanabara Bay, right? One of the bay's newer pleasures is an urban renewal project called Marvelous Port (above) where on any sunny day you'll see shirtless children diving into the water from a revamped public square. Nearby, the Museum of Tomorrow, a fanciful brainchild of famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, rises like the skeleton of a whale. These are the sorts of images you're likely to see on NBC's Olympic broadcast.
Will the cameras peer in more closely? The water those boys are diving into is covered by floating tangles of garbage and sewage. The Museum of Tomorrow—one focus of which is environmental sustainability—is surrounded on three sides by water laced with excrement. And if a camera goes high, it will be appallingly clear that this city is nearly overwhelmed by human feces. Great plumes of it unfurl like storm clouds across the bay's emerald waters. It emerges from one cove after another, even Marina da Glória, the base of the Olympic sailing and windsurfing competitions that start on Aug. 8. (The state of Rio claims it has fixed the problem in Marina da Glória, but recent aerial photos show little change.) This 147-square-mile body of water is fed by excrement-filled streams and rivers, including one that pours past a sewage treatment plant built in the 1990s but never connected.
Indepth analysis of overpopulation and its results (garbage, excrement) flowing unfettered into Rio's Guanabara Bay.
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