Category: climate breakdown

Debate with Clive Hamilton

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

The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual.

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Micro generation can’t solve climate change.

When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.

Does anyone really want to stop climate change?

That’s what we need in the United Kingdom to avoid catastrophic climate change

It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.