Fox News covers a report published by US climate skepticcampaign group the Heartland Institute in response to theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report. The”Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” says humanimpact on the global climate is small, changing temperatures arewithin a historic scope of temperature variables and there is nonet harm to human health of the production of food.

The German government has passed a law which will place a capon onshore and offshore wind and solar power expansion. It willalso reduce subsidies fro renewable energy which are partiallyresponsible for pushing Germany’s electricity prices up. Industryhas retained a number of exemptions it argues it needs to staycompetitive in the European market. Some environmental groups arecritical of the plans, however, saying it will slow the pace ofGermany’s green revolution.

It was a “mixed year” for renewable energy, according to thelead author of a new report. Global investment in wind, solar, andhydro power fell while the amount of electricity generated by thosesources grew, the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014report shows. Investment fell by 14 per cent, while generation grewby a little under one per cent, its data shows.

Poland’s government approved a long-awaited draft law onTuesday that lays out new long-term subsidies for renewable energy,aiming to cut costs to consumers as well as help the coal-reliantcountry meet EU climate targets.

Saving the planet from climate change is ‘beyond our ability’and we should stop wasting time trying to tackle global warming,James Lovelock has claimed. Instead, he claims society shouldretreat to ‘climate-controlled cities’ and give up on largeexpanses of land which will become inhabitable.

Harvard has become the first American university to sign onto a United Nations-backed code of responsible investment. Sixmonths after explicitly rejecting calls to divest from fossilfuels, managers of Harvard’s $33bn endowment will now be guided bya set of investment principles taking into account environmentaland social factors such as water and human rights, the universityannounced on Monday.

Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps has given the firstpublic indication that the Tories are planning to cement theiropposition to onshore wind farms in a manifesto commitment, arguingthat “the wind is moving in a clear direction”.

Education secretary Michael Gove has said he is concerned bysuggestions teachers aren’t providing a balanced view on climatechange. His comments come in response to a report by climateskeptic thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation which claimsit finds instances of “eco-activism being given a free rein withinschools and at the events schools encourage their pupils to attend.In every case of concern,the slant is on scares, on raising fears,followed by the promotion of detailed guidance on how pupils shouldlive, as well as on what they should think.”

The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media reviewseditorials on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’slatest report in five US daily newspapers: the Washington Post, NewYork Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal.The Wall Street Journal was the only paper to take a more skepticalview of the report, the Forum finds. Its editorial conceded thatthe panel’s findings should be viewed with “respect”, but the Forumquestions whether that will be returned by the scientific communitywhich feels slighted by the papers’ coverage.

The chief executive of consumer goods giant, Unilever, saysclimate change is already costing the company. Speaking at theGrantham Institute on Climate Change’s annual lecture, he saidclimate change was partially responsible for cancelled shippingroutes, destroyed power networks, reduced crop yields, anddangerous levels of air pollution – all of which had knock oneffects on the consumer goods industry.

A new study finds the number of tropical cyclones hitting theAustralia region has gone down in the last century. The researchersalso found the influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation oncyclone numbers was 3-5 times stronger in the first half of lastcentury than the second half.

A national survey suggests most Americans underestimate howmuch water they use, using twice as much as they think they do.Though this discrepancy seems large, people’s perceptions of theirenergy consumption were even further removed fromreality.

How will Australia’s marine fisheries respond to current andanticipated future climate change? A new paper reviews recentprogress towards increasing the industry’s resilience, as well asbarriers to adaptation that might emerge in the next 5-7years.