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Archive for the 'climate change' Category
Crash Landing
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?
Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.
An Attack of the Bellamoids
James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?
Pyrolising the Planet
The debate over biochar hots up.
Woodchips With Everything
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
The Christopher Booker Prize for Climate Change Bullshit
Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?
David Bellamy Challenged
A spectacular confrontation over climate change
Andy Harrison Challenged
In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.
Skating on Thin Ice
The freeze got me on my skates, and brought the loonies out of their holes.
Shaun Spiers Challenged
This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.
A Beardful of Bunkum
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
Yvo de Boer Challenged
This is the first in my series of interviews with those who hold our future in their hands. None of them are given an easy time.
Whistling in the Wind
The new climate change report falls miles short of what we need. Here are some of the emergency measures it should have contained.
One Shot Left
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
Picking Up the Gauntlet
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
Coal Scuttled
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all
Traded Away
A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.
The Self-Justifying Myth
People love films like The Great Global Warming Swindle, because they tell us what we want to believe.
Green Lifeline
A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Majesty, We Have Gone Mad
An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?
Burnt Out
The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam.
An Exchange of Souls
As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.
Hurray! We’re Going Backwards!
Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.
Leave It In The Ground
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
What Is Progress?
The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.
The Road Well Travelled
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
A Sudden Change of State
A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change - and the size of the necessary response.
Debate with Clive Hamilton
In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.
The Conspiracy Widens
A final response to Alexander Cockburn.
Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming. You can find all the articles, and other responses, here: http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html Read more »
Giving Up On Two Degrees
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? Read more »
The Real Climate Censorship
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
Correspondence with Hamish Mykura
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 Read more »
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet. Read more »
The Target Wreckers
Two ministries seem determined to scupper the government’s plans to combat global warming. Read more »
Channel 4’s Problem with Science
It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up - as long as it creates a controversy. Read more »
Just a Lot of Hot Air
An audit of the government’s planned carbon cuts shows they will achieve only half of what it claims.
Another Species of Denial
The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel. Read more »
Preparing for Take-Off
The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.
Here’s the Plan
For fast and effective action on climate change Read more »
Selling Indulgences
The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual
The Water Boom Is Over
Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.
Small is Useless
Micro generation can’t solve climate change.
Who’s Paying?
When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.
How Much Reality Can You Take?
Does anyone really want to stop climate change?
An 87% Cut by 2030
That’s what we need in the United Kingdom to avoid catastrophic climate change
The Smoke Behind the Deniers’ Fire
It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers - Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.
No Quick Fix
Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate change
Thanks, But We Still Don’t Need It
Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.
The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
Why won’t anyone enforce our building standards?
A Fondness for Fossil Fuels
If we’re to have a hydrogen economy, we have to secure our supplies of natural gas.
We Are All Killers
Until we stop flying
Buying Complacency
The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting
Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
How Much Energy Do We Have?
Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.
Our Own Nuclear Salesman
The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics
A World Turned Upside Down
The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them
Faced With This Crisis
The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change
Going Nowhere
Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).
Save us from Ourselves
Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.
A Restraint of Liberty
Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom
Junk Science
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus
A Different Kind of Revolution
Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.
Mocking Our Dreams
Climate change exposes progress as a myth