Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction. Read more.
Category archives: climate change
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? Read more.
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world. Read more.
Breach of Trust
Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking. Read more.
Fiscal Meltdown
The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine. Read more.
Climate Breakdown
How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires. Read more.
Parliament of Fools
The US disease has arrived in Britain: representatives waging an all-out war against science. Read more.
Abbottalypse Now
Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich. Read more.
Backwards Reasoning
Could fracking prevent climate change denial? Read more.
Pistols at Dawn
A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won? Read more.
Via Dolorosa
Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. Read more.
The Great Unmentionable
We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions Read more.
Frozen Assets
Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies? Read more.
New Weather, New Politics
The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded. Read more.
Forbidden Planet
We cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy. Read more.
Struck Dumb
Why, even now, climate change cannot be mentioned in the presidential election. Read more.
Empty Promise
Could scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong? Read more.
The Heat of the Moment
Climate breakdown is right here, right now. Read more.
Dance With the One Who Brung You
The environment is being trashed because of a failure to reform campaign finance. Read more.
False Summit
We were wrong about peak oil: there’s enough in the ground to deep-fry the planet. Read more.