Category: climate breakdown

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.

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?

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.

What Is Progress?

The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.

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.