The BBC is just about to launch a whole series of programmes called "Climate Chaos" - for more details see the section on their website.

One of the programmes is by Panorama, who will be examining how "the Bush administration has resisted calls to engage in Kyoto, and has been accused of a systematic campaign of disinformation and harassment against the scientific community - gagging scientists, re-writing major reports, and allowing the oil and coal industries to drive policy". Now that one should be worth watching.

More bad news for corals. Whole stretches of pristine coral reefs have been turned into “slime-covered rubble” because of rising sea temperatures caused by climate change according to a new study in the Seychelles.

Global greenhouse emissions increased 15 per cent over the decade 1992 to 2002, according to the World Bank. Although industrialised countries continue to be the worst offenders for climate change, China and India are also pushing up emissions.

As the first stage of new talks on the Kyoto agreement got under way in Bonn yesterday it emerged that one of the key countries - Canada - is willing to comply with its Kyoto commitments only if its emissions targets are lowered in phase two of the agreement.

On a lighter note. At the end of last week, the Yes Men, a group of activists known for their stunts against corporate executives, targetted Halliburton, the global oil services company.

Pretending to be Halliburton executives they gave a presentation at a trade conference in Florida advocating the use of "SurvivaBall", a large inflatable suit that provides safety from global warming.

"This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," Fred Wolf, a "representative" of Halliburton told the attentive and appreciative audience. The Yes Men have also set up a spoof Web site, called halliburtoncontracts.com. We just had to

A second analysis in two days outlines how climate change will cause “the greatest catastrophe in human history” in Africa. Yesterday, Christian Aid predicted that 182 million will die because of climate change by the end of the century.

Now evidence submitted to the official report that is being prepared for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown into the economic impact of climate change adds weight to the looming disaster awaiting Africa.

Europe’s flagship emissions trading scheme is suffering from a credibility crisis after it has emerged that many of the pollution limits have been far too lax. Critics argue that the limits need to be drastically improved or the scheme will do nothing to tackle climate change. They say governments have given industry "permission to pollute".

An investigation by The Guardian newspaper has found that just five giant energy companies in the UK produce more carbon dioxide pollution than all the motorists on UK roads combined.

The Bush Administration has admitted that climate change is killing coral reefs and therefore, under US law, it is obliged to take action to reduce pollution killing the reefs. This month, the US National Marine Fisheries Service ruled that two species of coral - elkhorn and staghorn - must officially be registered as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act, partly because they are threatened by rising sea temperatures. They are the first species ever to be listed as a result of global warming.

Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the recent winter, new satellite figures show. This spells disaster for wildlife and strengthens concerns that the region is locked into a destructive cycle of irreversible climate change.
Satellite measurements show the area covered by Arctic winter sea ice reached an all-time low in March, down some 300,000 square kilometres on last year -an area bigger than the UK. If the cycle continues, the Arctic could be ice-free by 2030.