Category: climate breakdown

Hurray! We’re Going Backwards!

Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.

The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.

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

Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?

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 new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.

In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.

A final response to Alexander Cockburn.

This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming.

Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change?

It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.

Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4

We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.

Two ministries seem determined to scupper the government’s plans to combat global warming.

It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up – as long as it creates a controversy.

An audit of the government’s planned carbon cuts shows they will achieve only half of what it claims.

The Bush administration will do anything except cut the consumption of fuel.

The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.

For fast and effective action on climate change